pins and needles

English

Noun

pins and needles

1. (informal) A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations.

   Synonyms: (the sensation) paresthesia, (said of the limb itself) asleep, dead

   • 1990, S. DelPin Failla, V. Fox, Ask the O.R. (number 6), volume 90, The American Journal of Nursing, page 18:

     The sensations caused by the loss of this nerve vary from numbness or "pins and needles" to severe pain.

Derived terms

• on pins and needles

Translations

tingling felt in limb

• Catalan: formigueig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發麻 / 发麻 (zh) (fāmá)

• Czech: mravenčení n
• Danish: snurrer og stikker
• Finnish: kihelmöinti (fi)
• French: fourmis (fr), avoir des fourmis dans les jambes (fr)
• Galician: formigo (gl) m
• Georgian: დაბუჟება (dabužeba)
• German: Ameisenlaufen n
• Hungarian: zsibbadás (hu), zsibbadtság (hu), bizsergés (hu)
• Irish: codladh driúraic m, codladh gliúragáin m, codladh grifín m, diúracas m, eanglach m
• Italian: formicolio (it) m
• Manx: cadley jargan m
• Maori: kerekerewai, kēkerewai
• Nupe: kpadzákpadzá
• Portuguese: formigamento (pt) m
• Russian: пока́лывание (ru) n (pokályvanije)
• Scottish Gaelic: cadal-deilgneach m
• Spanish: hormigueo (es) m
• Turkish: karıncalanma (tr)
• Yoruba: pajápajá

See also

• obdormition