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What does formication mean?

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  1. An abnormal skin sensation similar to that of insects crawling over or within the skin; a tactile hallucination involving such a sensation. A common side-effect of substance abuse, it can also be experienced with high fever, menopause, skin cancer, diabetic neuropathy, or herpes zoster.
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She felt too lazy to douse the candle, to shoo away the silken formication that was making her involuntarily compress her knees and shut her eyes.
Tumors in the hemispheres had, as general symptoms, headache, dizziness, formication and deafness, epileptic attacks, hemiplegia, convulsions, sopor and troubled mobility of the eye.
The thighs begin to struggle, as if formication was going on in the muscles.

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