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 state of the body.
A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
A physical feeling, e.g., touch, pain.
the power or process of receiving conscious sense impressions through direct stimulation of the bodily organism; an immediate reaction to external stimulation of a sense organ; conscious feeling or sense impression.
A sensation in homeopathy is an internal feeling. It can be as simple as describing a pain or as subtle as describing the feeling of being lonely. It is not an emotion such as sadness or anger, but rather how one would experience such sadness or anger. Sensations have always been very important in finding the correct homeopathic remedies, because they express more directly the particular nature of an individual's vital force
The immediate response in the brain caused by excitation of a sensory organ. A simpler process than perception.
Neuronal activity resulting from the transduction of stimulus energy into electrical activity
a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest; "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear"
a state of widespread public excitement and interest; "the news caused a sensation"
a direct reflection of an environmental stimulus, as opposed to a perception, which begins with a stimulus, but is subject to many internal influences, some psychological and some physiological, before it becomes conscious
The feeling of the bladder filling. During a cystometrogram, the patient will be asked to describe how much they can sense their bladder getting full.
Or Feeling. The Sanskrit word is Vedana. One of the Five Skandhas. See Five Skandhas.
the experience of a symptom, what it feels like. One of the parts of a complete symptom.
A conscious experience aroused by the stimulation of an organ of sense.
The sensory functions of the nerves sent from the extremities to the brain.
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.) See the entire definition of Sensation
an irreducible state of awareness produced by the action of a stimulus on a sense organ
One of the four basic "personality" functions in Jung's theory of "types". An arational process whereby perception is based on a thing's actual existence. (Contrasts with "intuition".)
Basic information in the external world that is processed by the sensory receptors.
The conscious experience associated with a very simple stimulus like the onset of a tone or light. At one time, the distinction between sensation and perception had great theoretical importance with perception viewed as a combination of sensations. Today, the dividing line between sensation and perception is much less clear, and it seems best to view such experiences as lying along a continuum.
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."