Medicine Word Today

Phantom vision: Seeing images after total loss of eyesight.

Phantom tooth: Persistent pain in the area from which a tooth has been extracted. Phantom tooth pain may last for months and can spread beyond the extraction site to other areas of the mouth.

Syndrome, phantom limb: See Phantom limb syndrome.

Phenomenon, phantom limb: See Phantom limb syndrome.

Phantom limb syndrome: The perception of sensations, usually including pain, in an arm or leg after the limb has been amputated. The brain still gets messages from the nerves that originally carried impulses from the missing limb. Phantom limb syndrome...