skin sensation
What touch registers
Skin sensation is the ability to perceive touch, pressure, temperature, and pain through nerve receptors in the skin.
The term appears in medical and physiological contexts: The patient reported diminished skin sensation in her fingertips.
Loss of skin sensation can indicate nerve damage or neurological conditions.
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- tingleSlight stinging sensation
- itchUrge to scratch
- burnDamage by heat
- prickleTiny sharp point
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presence of sensation
skin sensationnumbness
Loss of sensation
anesthesia · insensibility · desensitization · nerve block · sensory loss
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