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paræsthesia

paræsthesia is the obsolete form of paresthesia.

Meaning of paresthesia

Noun

paresthesia (countable and uncountable, plural paresthesias or paresthesiae)

  1. A sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin, with no obvious cause.
    • Paresthesia occurs when a body part 'falls asleep'.

Forms of paræsthesia

pluralparæsthesiæ

Origin of paræsthesia

From para- + -æsthesia.

Questions about paræsthesia

What is paræsthesia the obsolete form of?
Paræsthesia is the obsolete form of paresthesia.

Words near paræsthesia in the dictionary

  1. paræneses
  2. parænesis
  3. parænetic
  4. parænetical
  5. paræstheses
  6. paræsthesia
  7. paræsthesis
  8. paræsthesiæ
  9. paræsthetic
  10. parœcious
  11. parœmial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paræsthesia (page history and authors); paresthesia (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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