Vellication
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vellication is a noun meaning An instance of tickling or minor irritation.
Meaning
An instance of tickling or minor irritation.
More Meanings
- A spasm or twitch.
Example Sentences
Dear Madam, I think it long ſince I wrote, and ſometimes venture to hope that you think it long too. The intermiſſion has been filled with ſpaſms, opiates, ſleepleſs nights, and heavy days. Theſe vellications or my breaſt ſhorten my breath; whether they will much ſhorten my life I know not, but I have been for ſome time paſt very comfortleſs.
The sense of itching, which may be defined a painful titillation local or general, relieved by rubbing, is commonly a result of some mechanical or morbit irritant applied externally or internally to the part affected; though sometimes, unquestionable, dependenat upon a morbid sensibility of the nerves feeling themselves. If the summit of the nerves or their extreme points be alone touched, the effect is tickling or titillation, as in the vellication of the skin by a feather.
Word Forms
- vellications
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tickle, tickling, prickle, tingle, ticklee, niggling.
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