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"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Skin Senses

skin of teeth
skin over
skin patch
skin perceptiveness
skin physiology
skin pigmentation
skin pop
skin pore
skin problem
skin rash
skin reaction
skin reflexes
skin ridges
skin sensation
skin senses (current term)
skin signs
skin stones
skin tag
skin tags
skin test
skin test end-point titration
skin test for allergy
skin tests
skin traction
skin transplantation
skin tumor
skin up
skin worm
skin worms

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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