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tactual sensation

DEFINITIONS OF: tactual sensation

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n the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

Synonyms:
skin perceptiveness, tactility, touch perception
Type of:
somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

n the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

Synonyms:
feeling, tactile sensation, touch, touch sensation
Types:
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creepiness
an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin
cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation
a sensation localized on the skin
tickle
a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
itch, itchiness, itching
an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
topognosia, topognosis
recognition of the location of a stimulus on the skin
urtication
a sensation of having been stung by nettles
Type of:
perception
the process of perceiving
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