floccillation

[ flok-suh-ley-shuhn ]

nounPathology.
  1. a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.

Origin of floccillation

1
1835–45; <Latin flocc(us) floccus + -ill(us) diminutive suffix + -ation

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