sensation (redirected from psychologic effects of sensation)

sensation /sen·sa·tion/ (sen-sa´shun) an impression produced by impulses conveyed by an afferent nerve to the sensorium.

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girdle sensation  zonesthesia.

referred sensation , reflex sensation one felt elsewhere than at the site of application of a stimulus.

subjective sensation  one perceptible only to the subject, and not connected with any object external to the body.

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sen·sa·tion (sn-sshn)

n.

1. A perception associated with stimulation of a sense organ or with a specific body condition.

2. The faculty to feel or perceive; physical sensibility.

3. An indefinite, generalized body feeling.

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sensation (sensā´shn),

n an impression conveyed by an afferent nerve to the sensorium commune.

sensation, psychologic effects of,

n an arousal, facilitation, and distortion of sensation by psychologic factors, the basis for which lies in the corticalization of the special senses.

sensation, referred,

n a group of vaguely classified sensations that are a consequence of cortical experience. They are the sensory hallucinations,
paresthesias, and the phenomenon called
phantom limb. Nonspecific and poorly localized pain in the alveolar ridges, which have poor vascular supply, may be evidence of this phantom limb phenomenon associated with neurotic behavior.

sensation, specialized,

n a sensation that is perceived by the specialized end organs associated with special senses such as vision, hearing, and smell.

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sensation

an impression produced by impulses conveyed by an afferent nerve to the sensorium. Includes cold, distention, hunger, itch, pain, taste of various kinds, thermal, thirst, tickle, touch, warmth and some psychological and emotional experiences which animals obviously experience but cannot describe. See also sense.

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sensation disturbance

cutaneous sensation errors include paresthesia, hyperesthesia, anesthesia. See also blindness, deafness.

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sensation Mainstream medicine The conscious recognition of a physical–audio, chemical, electrical, mechanical, visual stimulation which excites a sense organ. See Epicritic sensation.