Definition of cutaneous senses Cutaneous senses
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What does cutaneous senses mean?
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| cutaneous senses - the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us" | ||
| touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality | ||
| 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 | ||
| exteroception sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body | ||
| somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | ||
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