Usually means: Delirious fumbling with bedclothes, hallucinatory.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. carphology: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. carphology: Collins English Dictionary
  3. carphology: Wordnik
  4. carphology: Wiktionary
  5. carphology: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. carphology: Dictionary.com
  7. Carphology: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. carphology: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Carphology: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. carphology: FreeDictionary.org
  11. carphology: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. carphology: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Carphology: World Wide Words

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. carphology: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. carphology: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of carphologia [(medicine, rare) picking at bedding and clothing, or at the lips, or of perceived invisible objects]

Similar:
carphologia, carpophagy, creophagia, rhypophagy, phaneromania, echoplasia, chthonophagia, picquerism, scopophilism, cleptoparasitosis, more...

Opposite:
acrology, ataxia, coordination

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Similar:
carphologia, carpophagy, creophagia, rhypophagy, phaneromania, echoplasia, chthonophagia, picquerism, scopophilism, cleptoparasitosis, more...

Opposite:
acrology, ataxia, coordination



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