formication

formication
/fawr'mi kay"sheuhn/, n.
a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin.
[1700-10; < L (Pliny) formication-, s. of formicatio a sensation that ants are crawling on one's skin, equiv. to formica(re) to have such a sensation (v. deriv. of formica ant) + -tion- -TION]

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