Taresthesia

[snopes]

Comment: I was at a trivia night and the clue was "what are you suffering
from if you have taresthesia?" The answer given was "your foot falling
asleep".

The next day, I did a search and found many trivia sites concurring; but
no medical sites, no dictionaries, and even a "that's a load of bull" from
a neurologist suggested that this was real.

I do know so far that a paresthesia is numbness and there is a greek root
tars meaning foot, but this word -taresthesia- seems made up.

Please confirm or deny that taresthesia is a real word.

[charlie23]

As mentioned, it isn't listed in either Miriam-Webster or Oxford dictionaries, or in any of the medical dictionaries I have. One of my clients/friends is a neurologist and he guessed the meaning right away but has never heard it used in a professional context, so it does seem to exist solely in the realm of trivia questions.
edit: it may possibly be a term used exclusively in the fields of Podiatry / Chiropody ?

66 google results not exactly major and they all seem to be of less then reliable reputation. Nothing on Wiki either definitely faux Latin.

[Casey]

Doesn't show in my neuroscience/neuroanatomy books anywhere, and there's some obscure stuff in there.

I'm betting on purely manufactured. Wouldn't it be podesthesia, anyway?

[UEL]

I wonder if it was invented for the trivia game that had no basis in truth. That way the company could determine if their questions were being copied wholesale into other trivia events.

This is getting to be a rectothesia

[BamaRainbow]

Originally Posted by UEL

I wonder if it was invented for the trivia game that had no basis in truth. That way the company could determine if their questions were being copied wholesale into other trivia events.

Actually, that sounds pretty reasonable. Mapmakers are known to include fake features (such as a non-existent street or non-existent intersection on city maps or a non-existent island on world maps) purely for proof of copyright infringement. I've heard of some dictionaries and encyclopedias which have included false entries, again for proof of copyright infringement. It would be amazingly easy to simply take one trivia game (in which some group of people had spent countless hours compiling all that information) and refashioning it and selling it as a "brand-new" trivia game. Without some otherwise trivial (sorry) tidbit unique to original game (especially if "fake trivia"), the original company selling the game would stand to lose millions of dollars to some upstart who hadn't done any work.

[Spam & Cookies-mmm]

Originally Posted by lazerus the duck

66 google results not exactly major and they all seem to be of less then reliable reputation. Nothing on Wiki either definitely faux Latin.

Most of the results I got were the trivia question itself.

Example