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carphology, carphologia, carphologies (pl); also, carphologias
1. In medicine, involuntary picking at bedclothes, seen especially in febrile or exhaustive delirium of the low muttering type.
2. The actions of delirious or semiconscious patients, as if they are searching for or grasping at imaginary objects, or picking at the bed-clothes or their own clotes.

This is a grave symptom in cases of extreme exhaustion or approaching death. Also known as floccillation.

Carphology comes from the Greek karphologia, a compound of the two Greek elements: karphos, "straw", and legeln, "to collect". It means to behave as though one were picking up bits of straw. This refers to the involuntary movements sometimes seen in delirious patients who may be in exhaustion, stupor, or with a high fever.

Most dictionaries that include carphology also refer the user to floccillation which is the Latin equivalent, formed from floccus, "a bit of wool or straw".

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(Latin: sharp, to sharpen; point; needle, pin)
(Greek: struggle, a contest, to contend for a prize; also, to lead, set in motion, drive, conduct, guide, govern; to do, to act; by extension, pain)
(Greek: man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen or anther as used in botany)
(Latin: a suffix; small, tiny; also, result of the act of, means of)
(Latin: ten; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Latin: in, into, within, inside, on, toward [il-, ir-, im-], in, into, etc.: involve, incur, invade; also, used intensively, as in the words inflame and inflammable, or without perceptible force.)
(Greek: a specific mental disorder or obsessive preoccupation with something; madness, frenzy; obsession, or abnormal desire for or with something or someone; also, an excessive enthusiasm or fondness for something that is not safe or advantageous)
(Greek: breast; the front of the human chest and either of two soft rounded organs on each side of the chest in women and men; however, with women the organs are more prominent and produce milk after childbirth; also, a milk-producing gland in mammals that corresponds to the human breast)
(Greek: small, tiny; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: dwarf, dwarfish; pygmy; "little old man;" very small or tiny; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Italian: very small or from Spanish, "beak, tip, very small"; and from Latin, beccus, beak; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: toil, labor, work hard, fatigue; exertion; also, suffering, pain)
(Greek > Latin: case, capsule, sheath, container, receptacle [also: a placing, a setting, a putting]; "a place where" something is kept)
(Latin: beginner, novice [also, originally, a "young soldier" or "recruit"])
(a reverse acronym or a regular word that also doubles as an acronym using the same procedures as with acronyms, except that the letters of a word are presented to form a phrase which defines the word or for humorous reasons)
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dengue (s) (noun) [also called: breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever]
An acute, infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus (viruses transmitted by arthropods; such as, mosquitoes and ticks) and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pains.
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