skin senses

Thân thiện

The child explores the texture of a smooth stone with her skin senses.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The faculty of cutaneous perception: "skin senses" refers to the sensory system responsible for perceiving external stimuli through direct contact with the skin, particularly sensations like pressure, temperature, and pain.
   • The sense of touch: It is the collective term for the sensory capabilities of the skin, enabling the perception of physical contact and texture.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The skin senses provide critical information about our immediate environment.
  • A loss in the skin senses can make it difficult to handle objects safely.

Advanced Usage

• In scientific or medical contexts: The term is often used to discuss neurology, dermatology, or sensory physiology.
  • The study focused on how the skin senses transmit signals to the brain.

Variants and Related Words

• Cutaneous senses: A more technical synonym for "skin senses."
• Somatosensation: A broader term encompassing the skin senses as well as proprioception (sense of body position).
• Tactile perception: Often used to describe the cognitive processing of information from the skin senses.

Synonyms

• Sense of touch
• Tactile sense
• Cutaneous sensitivity

Related Phrases

• Tactile feedback: Information received through the skin senses, often in technology or design contexts.
  • The controller provides tactile feedback to simulate real sensations.

Notes on Meaning

This term is primarily used in academic, scientific, or technical writing. In everyday language, "sense of touch" or "feeling" is more common. "Skin senses" specifically emphasizes the biological sensory receptors located in the skin.

Học thuật

Noun

1. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• touch
• sense of touch
• touch modality
• cutaneous senses