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Definition of Aesthesia

1. Noun. Mental responsiveness and awareness.

Definition of Aesthesia

1. Noun. The ability to perceive sensations. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aesthesia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aesthesia

1. Perception by the senses; feeling; the opposite of anaesthesia. Origin: Gr. Sensation, fr. To perceive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesthesia

Literary usage of Aesthesia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1849)
"... the term of the cholera fit, being the result of, and the putting an end to, the morbid state of the motor aesthesia. Such persons should be kept warm, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1892)
"Hyper-aesthesia of the right leg with muscular contraction, result of a fall. Cure of the hyper-aesthesia by suggestion ; of the deviation due to the ..."

3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1873)
"To turn also to the ovaries themselves, there is such a thing and a common thing too as hyper-aesthesia of the ovaries, but this differs entirely from ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1900)
"In one of my cases, patches of hypo-aesthesia with paraesthesia were very well marked on the loins, lateral aspects of chest, and in the scapular and ..."

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