What's the difference between hypesthesia and numbness?
Hypesthesia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a definite glove and stocking type of hypesthesia to pinprick and cotton wool.
(2) Left facial hypesthesia and quadrantic hemianopsia of left eye were the detectable neurological findings.
(3) On May 22, 1985, a 80-year-old man was admitted to our clinic with chief complaints of gait disturbance and hypesthesia below the umbilical level.
(4) Neurological examination revealed nothing other than hypesthesia and hypalgesia which distributed in the third, fourth and fifth segments of left sacral region with the loss of anal reflex.
(5) Although the postoperative course was complicated by a transient dysuria and hypesthesia at S1-S5 levels, complete cure was achieved in a month.
(6) The patient discharged on March '84 four months after the trauma walking by himself with tetraparesis especially weakness of the hands and hypesthesia of glove and stocking type.
(7) The physical examination on admission revealed spastic gait and hypesthesia of the lower extremities.
(8) Patients with Minamata disease (methylmercury intoxication) usually suffer from the glove and stocking type hypesthesia in the extremities.
(9) Complications were infection, toe hypesthesia, and metatarsophalangeal joint subluxation.
(10) At follow-up examination 16 months later, hypesthesia and slight weakness remained.
(11) Neurological examinations at admission showed paraparesis with positive Babinski's and Chaddock's reflexes, hypesthesia and disturbances of vibration and position senses below the 9th thoracic nerve level.
(12) Right hemiparesis with an ipsilateral hypesthesia and ataxia developed in a 57-year-old man.
(13) At the time of examination, she showed a spastic gait, increased deep tendon reflexes in four extremities, hypesthesia of the feet, mild bowel and bladder disturbances.
(14) In December, he showed tetraplegia, left-sided facial palsy, and hypesthesia and hypalgesia to the level of C5.
(15) Physical examination showed muscular atrophy of right upper limb and hypesthesia in the right eight cervical and first thoracic dermatomes.
(16) Postoperative morbidity included worsening of pre-existing hearing loss in six patients, transient facial nerve palsies in six, permanent facial nerve palsies in four and new facial or corneal hypesthesia in three.
(17) In evaluating patients for diplopia, enophthalmos, hypesthesia, and restricted ocular movement, 85% showed complete resolution of symptoms.
(18) Although none of the patients developed anesthesia dolorosa or corneal ulceration, one group of patients developed either a clinical or subclinical persistent "minimal hypesthesia."
(19) On the examination, hypesthesia in the L distribution and stiff neck with positive straight leg raising test were observed.
(20) Neurological examination revealed hypesthesia of the left hand.
Numbness
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain in the anterolateral thigh.
(2) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(3) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(4) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
(5) Postoperatively, the weakness of the lower extremities was improved immediately, but numbness remained.
(6) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
(7) A case is reported of a patient with sudden onset, generalized toothache accompanied with a numb chin and lower lip.
(8) A 57-year-old man was admitted with the complaints of vague headache and left upper limb numbness.
(9) Unilateral enlargement of the tibialis anterior muscle associated with complex repetitive discharges occurred over several months in two patients and was preceded by pain and numbness in the lower leg.
(10) But after 14 hours Danilkin's numbing monologue – almost a carbon copy of the prosecutors's case – is beginning to pall.
(11) In the nineteenth century, some natives of Peru noticed circumoral numbness, euphoria and analgesia after chewing the leaves of the Erythroxylen coca bush.
(12) In a random sample of 3000 women of ages eighteen to fifty-nine years in the city of Västerås, Sweden, 19% of the 2705 responders to a questionnaire complained of cold and white fingers with or without numbness.
(13) There were some hormonal patterns characteristic of individual complaints; hot flush was associated with increased FSH and LH, and decreased E1 and E2; difficulty in falling asleep, excitability, and fatigability, with increased FSH and LH, and decreased E2; nervousness, with increased LH and decreased E2; headache, with increased LH and PRL, and decreased E2; feeling of cold, with decreased E2 and PRL; and numbness and shoulder stiffness, with decreased E2.
(14) Other common manifestations were unilateral leg pain, numbness or weakness of the leg, and evidence of mild cauda equina compression.
(15) Major symptoms included progressive hearing loss, facial numbness, occipital headaches, dizziness, and diplopia of less than a year's duration.
(16) A case is reported in which mandibular swelling and lower lip numbness were the first signs of a metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung.
(17) A 60 year-old man complained of numbness and pain in the right lower limb, suggesting lesions of the fifth lumbar and first sacral roots.
(18) The prevalence of VWF, numbness and coldness of the fingers, and coldness of the legs was higher the longer the total chain saw operating period.
(19) 3) At the severe stage, pain and dullness at the back, numbness at arms and hands, hand coldness, sleep disturbance etc.
(20) The perioral numbness (paresthesia) experienced at doses of 750, 900, and 1,000 mg was probably drug related.