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skin senses

DEFINITIONS OF: skin senses

1

n the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

Synonyms:
cutaneous senses, sense of touch, touch, touch modality
Type of:
exteroception
sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
somatosense
any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain
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