Word Meanings - PSEUDAESTHESIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• AMPUTATION
  The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• PERCEPTION
  The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• AMPUTATOR
  One who amputates.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• HYPOCHONDRIASIS
  A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health. (more info) its seat in the hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondriac,
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• REAMPUTATION
  The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.