Magnan's sign — is a clinical sign in which people with cocaine addiction experience paraesthesia which feels like a constantly moving foreign body, such as fine sand or powder, under the skin.[1] The sign is named after Valentin Magnan. External links Magnan s… … Wikipedia
Magnan movement sign — Mag·nan movement, sign (mah nyahґ) [Valentin Jacques Joseph Magnan, French psychiatrist, 1835–1916] see under movement and see formication … Medical dictionary
Magnan-Saury's sign — see Magnan s sign … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Sign — Any abnormality that indicates a disease process, such as a change in appearance, sensation, or function, that is observed by a physician when evaluating a patient. * * * 1. Any abnormality indicative of disease, discoverable on examination of… … Medical dictionary
Magnan — Valentin J.J., Paris psychiatrist, 1835–1916. See M. trombone movement, M. sign … Medical dictionary
Valentin Magnan — (1835 1916) was a French psychiatrist who was a native of Perpignan. He studied medicine in Lyon and Paris, where he was a student of Jules Baillarger (1809 1890) and Jean Pierre Falret (1794 1870). From 1867 until the end of his career he was… … Wikipedia
Magnan sign — formication … Medical dictionary
Street sign theft — occurs when street signs are stolen, often to be used as decorations, but also sometimes to avoid obeying the law by claiming later the sign was not there.Fact|date=January 2008 Although the theft often seems arbitrary, unusual or amusing signs… … Wikipedia
cocaine bugs — Also known as Magnan s sign and Magnan Saury s sign. All three terms refer to a * tactile hallucination consisting of a crawling foreign body beneath or upon the skin that is associated with the chronic use of cocaine. Except for their… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
formicative hallucination — Also referred to as formication, dermatozoic hallucination, and insect hallucination. The terms formication and formicative hallucination are indebted to the Latin noun formica, which means ant. All of the above four terms are used more or… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
