Look up: sensation

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   sensation
   [n] - a state of widespread public excitement and interest 2. [n] - a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest 3. [n] - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
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   Sensation
   A physical feeling, e.g., touch, pain.
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   Sensation
   Sensation: In medicine and physiology, sensation refers to the registration of an incoming (afferent) nerve impulse in that part of the brain called the sensorium, which is capable of such perception. Therefore, the awareness of a stimulus as a result of its perception by sensory receptors. (Sensory is here synonymous with sensation.) The word 'sen ...
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   sensation
   the effect in consciousness of stimulation of an afferent nerve Category: Medicine • the element of the mental content of a sense impression which cannot be analysed further Category: Physics
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   Sensation
   Sen·sa'tion noun [ Confer French sensation . See Sensate .] 1. (Physiol.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by s ...
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   sensation
   1. <physiology> An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal ...
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   sensation
   esthesis noun an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; `a sensation of touch`
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   sensation
   noun a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest; `anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear`
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   sensation
   noun a state of widespread public excitement and interest; `the news caused a sensation`
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    sensation
    sentiency noun the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; `in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing`
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    Sensation
    In psychology, `sensation` is the first stage in the biochemical and neurologic events that begins with the impinging of a stimulus upon the receptor cells of a sensory organ, which then leads to perception, the mental state that is reflected in statements like `I see a uniformly blue wall.` A sensation that might lead to that statement could include the excitation of cone cells in the retina, spatially varying in the proportion of `blue` and `g...
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    sensation
    (sen-sa´shәn) an impression produced by impulses conveyed by an afferent nerve to the sensorium. girdle sensation zonesthesia. primary sensation that resulting immediately and directly from application of a stimulus. referred sensation&...
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    Sensation
    • (n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material. • (n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or stat...
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    sensation
    in neurology and psychology, any concrete, conscious experience resulting from stimulation of a specific sense organ, sensory nerve, or sensory area ... [6 related articles]
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    sensation
    sensation Receiving conscious sense impressions; such as to hear, see, touch, taste, and smell.
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    sensation
    A feeling; the translation into consciousness of the effects of a stimulus exciting any of the organs of sense. [L. sensatio, perception, feeling, fr. sentio, to perceive, feel]
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    sensation
    
    1. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
    2. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
    3. a general feeling of excitement
    4. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
    
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    Sensation
    (Ger. Empfindung) In Kant: The content of sensuous intuition, or the way in which a conscious subject is modified by the presence of an object. Kant usually employs the term to designate the content sensed instead of the process of sensing. The process he calls 'intuition' (q.v.); the faculty he names 'sensibility' (q.v.). See Kantianism. -- O.F.K...
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