- a variation of hyperesthesia.
hyperaesthesia
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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.
From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.
The hyperaesthesia spreads in a slight degree round the eye.
From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by Harris, John William
The reaction from the battle-field produced a condition of hyperaesthesia in which all the theatrical values were altered.
From Heartbreak House by Shaw, Bernard
The chill and the hyperaesthesia of the eyes can be so severe that a doctor or an oculist would be consulted.
From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by Harris, John William
It may be accounted a form of hyperaesthesia and no doubt has a nervous expression, but it is not the less psychic in its origin.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
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