vellication

Noun

1. An instance of tickling or minor irritation.
   • Where irritation coincides with sensation to produce the same catenations of motion, as in inflammatory fevers, they are excited with still greater energy than by the irritation alone. So when children expect to be...
   • 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;...
2. A spasm or twitch.
   • 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...