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floccillation

[ flok-suh-ley-shuhn ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of floccillation1

1835–45; < Latin flocc ( us ) floccus + -ill ( us ) diminutive suffix + -ation

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