vellicative
English
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- Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
- 1829, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, Volume 1:
- There is sometimes a peculiar sensibility in the teeth or their sheaths that induces a kind of vibratory pain, in which they colloquially said to be set on edge; and that in two ways, as follows:
From jarring noises.
From vellicative or acrid substances.