sensory loss
Diminished bodily awareness
Sensory loss is diminished or absent function in one or more senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.
The term appears in medical contexts describing conditions from partial hearing loss to complete blindness: Age-related sensory loss affects many elderly patients.
Sensory loss may be congenital, result from injury or disease, or develop gradually over time.
- paresthesiaAbnormal skin sensation
- blindnessAbsence of vision
- deafnessLack of auditory function
- numbnessLoss of sensation
- anosmiaTotal olfactory loss
neuropathy · tingling · pins and needles · macular degeneration · cataracts · pins · muffled · dulled · touch · damage · needles · stroke · silence · nerve · hearing · fading · darkness · tinnitus
- disabilitydisability rights, disability culture, disability activism, disability services, disability identity
- neurological symptomsnumbness, tremor, paralysis, aphasia, ataxia
- Sensory limitsthreshold, pain threshold, hearing range, blind spot, color blindness
- Leprosyleprosy, Hansen's disease, mycobacterium, bacillus, bacilli
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
- deprivationlack, deprivation, need, want, shortage
perceptual intensity
sensory losshypersensitivity
Exaggerated response to stimuli
sensory overload · supersensitivity · keen perception · sensory sensitivity · synesthesia