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  • 1sensation — [sen sā′shən] n. [LL sensatio < sensatus: see SENSATE] 1. the power or process of receiving conscious sense impressions through direct stimulation of the bodily organism [the sensations of hearing, seeing, touching, etc.] 2. an immediate… …

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  • 2sensation — ► NOUN 1) a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body. 2) the capacity to have such feelings or perceptions: gradual loss of sensation. 3) a general awareness or impression not… …

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  • 3sensation — n. 1 the consciousness of perceiving or seeming to perceive some state or condition of one s body or its parts or senses or of one s mind or its emotions; an instance of such consciousness (lost all sensation in my left arm; had a sensation of… …

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  • 4sensation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. feeling, perception, consciousness, impression; furor. See sensibility. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The sense of feeling] Syn. sensibility, susceptibility, sensitiveness, consciousness, awareness,… …

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  • 5Affective sensation — An affective sensation is a sensation accompanied with a strong compulsion to act on it, causing reflex actions such as the scratch reflex or the withdrawal reflex. Affective sensations are transmitted via the spinothalamic tract through the… …

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  • 6sensational — adj. 1 causing or intended to cause great public excitement etc. 2 of or causing sensation. Derivatives: sensationally adv …

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  • 7aesthesiogenic —   a. causing sensation …

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  • 8knismogenic — Causing a tickling sensation. [G. knismos, tickling, + gen, production] …

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  • 9nervous system disease — Introduction       any of the diseases or disorders that affect the functioning of the human nervous system (nervous system, human). Everything that humans sense, consider, and effect and all the unlearned reflexes of the body depend on the… …

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  • 10nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction       system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …

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