synesthesia (redirected from Synaesthasia)

synesthesia /syn·es·the·sia/ (sin?es-the´zhah)

1. a secondary sensation accompanying an actual perception.

2. a dysesthesia in which a stimulus of one sense is perceived as sensation of a different sense, as when a sound produces a sensation of color.

3. a dysesthesia in which a stimulus to one part of the body is experienced as being at a different location.

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syn·es·the·sia (sns-thzh)

n.

1. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.

2. A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus that is applied to another, as in referred pain.

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synes·thetic (-thtk) adj.