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hyperasthesia

hyperasthesia is the misspelling of hyperesthesia.

Meaning of hyperesthesia

Noun

hyperesthesia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperesthesias)

  1. Unusual or pathological sensitivity of the skin or of a particular sense.
    • "There are zones of marked hyper-æsthesia on his limbs. His visual field and pupillary reaction is normal."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

Questions about hyperasthesia

What is hyperasthesia the misspelling of?
Hyperasthesia is the misspelling of hyperesthesia.

Words near hyperasthesia in the dictionary

  1. hyperarticulations
  2. hyperaspheric
  3. hyperaspist
  4. hyperaspists
  5. hyperassertive
  6. hyperasthesia
  7. hyperathletic
  8. hyperattention
  9. hyperattentive
  10. hyperattenuated
  11. hyperattenuating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyperasthesia (page history and authors); hyperesthesia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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