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Definition of Skin senses
1. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Exteroception, Somatosense
Group relationships: Somaesthesia, Somaesthesis, Somataesthesis, Somatesthesia, Somatic Sense, Somatic Sensory System, Somatosensory System, Somesthesia, Somesthesis
Derivative terms: Touch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skin Senses
Literary usage of Skin senses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"THE skin senses Rough and smooth, hard and soft, moist and dry, hot and cold,
itching, tickling, pricking, stinging, aching are skin sensations; ..."
2. Elements of Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1922)
"Importance of the skin senses. — While the cutaneous sensations furnish no great
variety of quality, the fact that their receptors are spread over the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... a disease in which degeneration of sensory nerve-fibres of the muscular sense
and of the skin senses is prominent. ..."
4. The Human Body: An Account of Its Structure and Activities and the by Henry Newell Martin (1881)
"... touch and temperature, may sometimes be confounded, while a sound and a sight
cannot be: the modality of the less modified skin-senses is less complete. ..."
5. The Human Body: An Account of Its Structure and Activities and the by Henry Newell Martin (1881)
"... touch and temperature, may sometimes be confounded, while a sound and a sight
cannot be: the modality of the less modified skin-senses is less complete. ..."
6. The Human Body: An Account of Its Structure and Activities and the by Henry Newell Martin (1881)
"... touch and temperature, may sometimes be confounded, while a sound and a sight
cannot be: tke modality of the less modified skin-senses is less complete. ..."
7. The Human Body: An Account of Its Structure and Activities and the by Henry Newell Martin (1881)
"... the less modified skin-senses is less complete. The study of comparative
anatomy and development shows that the irritable parts of our sense-organs are ..."
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