stinging sensation

collocation in English

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sting
noun
uk
/stɪŋ/us
/stɪŋ/
a sudden burning pain in your eyes, on your skin, etc., or the ability to cause ...
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sensation
noun
uk
/senˈseɪ.ʃən/us
/senˈseɪ.ʃən/
the ability to feel something physically, especially by touching, or a physical feeling that results from ...
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(Definition ofstingandsensationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Contact results in astingingsensation, which is followed by a rash similar to that caused by poison ivy.
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Initial symptoms of contact include astingingsensation, swelling, redness, and itching of the wound site.
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In her garden with her bare arm in bushes, a woman felt astingingsensationand withdrew hurriedly.
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This gas diffuses through the air and soon reaches the eye, where it activates sensory neurons, creating astingingsensation.
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The desired effect may be a tickling orstingingsensation, or the infliction of psychological distress on another person.
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Being struck by the twigs induces a pleasantstingingsensationbut very little actual pain.
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This cataplasm was put on the chest or the back and left until the person felt astingingsensation.
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On humans, this will most likely cause a nonlethal, but painfulstingingsensationwhich can last for forty minutes.
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A brief but intensestingingsensationis experienced immediately upon application.
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Thestingingsensationis initially caused by the mechanical entry of the stiff hair into the skin, but is then intensified by the effect of the oxalate.
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Sufferers may exhibit a range of cutaneous symptoms such as crawling, biting, and stinging sensations (formication), unusual fibers in the skin, and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores).
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