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noun 
  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 fever, high fever, menopause, skin cancer, w:diabetic_neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, or herpes zoster.
Etymology: circa, c. 1700, From (term, formica) (ant) + (term, -tion).


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