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CUTANEOUS SENSATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cutaneous sensation mean?
• CUTANEOUS SENSATION (noun)
The noun CUTANEOUS SENSATION has 1 sense:
1. a sensation localized on the skin
Familiarity information: CUTANEOUS SENSATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sensation localized on the skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
cutaneous sensation; haptic sensation; skin sensation
Hypernyms ("cutaneous sensation" is a kind of...):
feeling; tactile sensation; tactual sensation; touch; touch sensation (the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutaneous sensation"):
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)
Context examples
A disorder characterized by functional disturbances of sensory neurons resulting in abnormal cutaneous sensations of tingling, numbness, pressure, cold, and warmth that are experienced in the absence of a stimulus.
(Paresthesia, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
Abnormal cutaneous sensations of tingling, numbness, pressure, cold, and warmth that an individual experiences without the presence of a stimulus.
(Paresthesia, NCI Thesaurus)
A topical anesthetic cream, containing lidocaine 2.5% and prilocaine 2.5%, that provides neuralgia pain relief by causing loss of cutaneous sensation through reversible blockade of conduction in nerve fibers.
(Eutectic Mixture of Local Anesthetics, NCI Thesaurus)
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