Crossword-Solution: HYPERAESTHESIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hyperaesthesia | n. | A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it. |
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| EXCESSIVELY acute feeling in any part | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with HYPERAESTHESIA (5)
The reaction from the battle-field produced a condition of hyperaesthesia in which all the theatrical values were altered.
Neither found the serenity and repose of Wagner, for neither was as sane and both suffered mortally from hyperaesthesia, the penalty of all sick genius.
Charles Reade chaffs the doctors very wittily in "Hard Cash" on their _penchant_ for the word "_hyperaesthesia,"_ but nothing else exactly defines that exaggeration of nervous sensibility which I have invariably seen in opium-eaters.
This in connection with the pack may in many cases wisely be continued throughout the whole progress of the case, and often hastens the restoration of general nervous equilibrium by many days, removing to a very pereptible degree that _hyperaesthesia_, that exaggerated sensation of all the natural processes normally unconscious, which continues to rob the sufferer of sleep long after acute pain is lulled.
Hence bromide of potassium--or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action--is used as a hypnotic, as the standard anaphrodisiac, as a sedative in mania and all forms of morbid mental excitement, and in hyperaesthesia of all kinds.