cold sensation
Skin prickling coolness
Cold sensation is the feeling produced when skin or tissue loses heat or encounters something below body temperature.
The phrase appears most often in medical contexts describing symptoms: The patient reported a cold sensation in her extremities.
It can also describe the physical experience of touching something chilled or being exposed to cold air.
- chillCold sensation or relaxation
- shiverInvoluntary trembling sensation
- frostThin ice coating
- frozen solidEntirely turned to ice
- icyFrozen or unfriendly
bone chilling · numb · goosebumps · freezing · brisk · biting · wind chill · draft · tingling · cool · frigid · shudder · frosty · nippy · gelid · raw · piercing · wintry
- temperature sensing
- sensessight, smell, taste, hearing, touch
- sensationstaste, touch, smell, sound, pain
- body sensestouch, pain, proprioception, kinesthesia, pain receptors
- phantom sensationsphantom limb, phantom pain, phantom touch, phantom limb pain, phantom vibration
cold sensationhot sensation
Perceived thermal intensity
warmth · heat · warm sensation · burning sensation · hot flash
cold sensationcozy warmth
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