Usually means: Sensation of insects crawling skin.
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  1. formication: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. formication: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Formication: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Formication: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. formication: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  12. formication: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  13. Formication: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. formication: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  16. formication: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formication: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formication: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. formication: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Formication: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. formication: Medical dictionary
  7. Formication: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. formication: A Word A Day
  2. formication: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formication: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (formication)

noun:  (medicine) 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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