heat sensation
Feeling of warmth
Heat sensation is the perception of warmth or hotness, whether from external sources like fire or sunlight, or internal processes like fever or inflammation.
The term appears in medical and physiological contexts to describe how the body detects temperature changes through specialized nerve receptors: The patient reported a burning heat sensation in her fingertips.
Heat sensation can also describe the subjective experience of spicy foods, which trigger the same receptors that detect actual heat.
- warmthHeat you feel
- burningCombustion in progress
- feverElevated body temperature
- fever dreamHallucinatory episode during illness
- flushSame suit, five cards
sweat · scorching · tingling · glow · hot · red hot · fire · sunburn · sun exposure · radiation · prickle · feverish · searing · throbbing · inflammation · sting · blaze · tropical