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sense (sens)

1. any of the physical processes by which stimuli are received, transduced, and conducted as impulses to be interpreted to the brain.

2. in molecular genetics, referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

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body sense  somatognosis.

color sense  the faculty by which colors are perceived and distinguished.

sense of equilibrium  the sense that maintains awareness of being or not being in an upright position, controlled by receptors in the vestibule of the ear.

joint sense  arthresthesia.

kinesthetic sense 

1. kinesthesia.

2. muscle s.

light sense  the sense by which degrees of brilliancy are distinguished.

motion sense , movement sense the awareness of motion by the head or body.

muscle sense , muscular sense

1. sensory impressions, such as movement and stretch, that come from the muscles.

2. movement s.

pain sense  the ability to feel pain, caused by stimulation of a nociceptor.

position sense , posture sense the awareness of the position of the body or its parts in space, a combination of the sense of equilibrium and kinesthesia.

pressure sense  the sense by which pressure upon the surface of the body is perceived.

sixth sense  somatognosis.

somatic senses  senses other than the special senses, including touch, pressure, pain, and temperature, kinesthesia, muscle sense, visceral sense, and sometimes sense of equilibrium.

space sense  the sense by which relative positions and relations of objects in space are perceived.

special senses  those of seeing, hearing, taste, smell, and sometimes sense of equilibrium.

stereognostic sense  the sense by which form and solidity are perceived.

temperature sense  the sense by which differences of temperature are distinguished by the thermoreceptors.

vestibular sense  s. of equilibrium.

vibration sense  pallesthesia.

visceral sense  the awareness of sensations that arise from the viscera and stimulate the interoceptors; sensations include pain, pressure or fullness, and organ movement.

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sense (sns)

n.

1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.

2. A perception or feeling that is produced by a stimulus; sensation, as of hunger.

v.

To become aware of; perceive.

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sense (sens),

n a faculty by which the conditions or properties of things are perceived. Hunger, thirst, malaise, and pain are varieties of sense.

sense, special,

n one or all of the five senses: feeling, hearing, seeing, smell, and taste.

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sense

a faculty by which the conditions or properties of things are perceived. Hunger, thirst, malaise and pain are varieties of sense; a sense of equilibrium or of well-being (euphoria) and other senses are also distinguished. The five major senses comprise vision, hearing, smell (2), taste and touch (1).

The operation of all senses involves the reception of stimuli by sense organs. Each sense organ is sensitive to a particular kind of stimulus. The eyes are sensitive to light; the ears, to sound; the olfactory organs of the nose, to odor; and the taste buds of the tongue, to taste. Various sense organs of the skin and other tissues are sensitive to touch, pain, temperature and other sensations.

On receiving stimuli, the sense organ translates them into nerve impulses that are transmitted along the sensory nerves to the brain. In the cerebral cortex, the impulses are interpreted, or perceived, as sensations. The brain associates them with other information, acts upon them, and stores them as memory. See also sensation.

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cutaneous sense

skin senses including touch, pressure, pain, heat and cold.

sense organs

1. the organs of special sense including eye, olfactory organ, gustatory organs.

2. all organs containing sensory receptors.

special s's

the five senses including feeling, hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting.

sense strand

see coding strand.