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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• paresthesia / paraesthesia

Translations

tingling felt in limb

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發麻／发麻 (zh) (fāmá), 发麻 (zh) (fāmá)

• Czech: mravenčení n
• Danish: snurrer og stikker
• Finnish: kihelmöinti (fi)
• French: fourmis (fr)
• Galician: formigo (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ameisenlaufen n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: zsibbadás, zsibbadtság, bizsergés
• Irish: codladh driúraic m, codladh gliúragáin m, codladh grifín m, diúracas m, eanglach m
• Manx: cadley jargan m
• Maori: kerekerewai, kēkerewai
• Portuguese: formigamento m
• Russian: пока́лывание (ru) n (pokályvanije)
• Spanish: hormigueo (es) m

See also

• obdormition
• on pins and needles