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 

• CUTANEOUS SENSATION (noun)

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)