hyperesthesia
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of hyperesthesia
First recorded in 1840–50; hyper- + esthesia ( def. )
Example Sentences
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All these clothes help the celeb pet deal with her feline hyperesthesia, a condition that involves an abnormal increase in the sensitivity to different stimuli.
From Time ● Feb. 21, 2015
Upon manipulation of the patellar region, one is impressed with the fact that hyperesthesia does not exist in proportion to the pain manifested during locomotion.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
Three years later, Krafft-Ebing, toward the close of his life, adopted the same conception; the cases to which he applied it were all, he considered, of bisexual disposition and usually, also, marked by sexual hyperesthesia.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
By exerting tension on the flexor tendon, by means of passive dorsal flexion of the member, evidence of hyperesthesia may be detected.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
In many cases there is marked hyperesthesia, or irritable weakness.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
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