Consciousness

Introduction: Consciousness

Description of Consciousness

Consciousness: The state of being aware, or perceiving physical facts or mental concepts; a state of general wakefulness and responsiveness to environment; a functioning sensorium. [L. conscio, to know, to be aware of]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Consciousness: state of being aware, or perceiving physical facts or mental concepts; a state of general wakefulness and responsiveness to environment; a functioning sensorium.
Source: CRISP

Consciousness: Sense of awareness of self and of the environment.
Source: MeSH 2007

Consciousness: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Consciousness:

• Consciousness symptoms (1504 causes)
• State
• Physical
• Physical symptoms
• Physical disease
• Physical disorder
• Mental
• Mental symptoms (3121 causes)
• Mental disease
• Mental disorder

Terms associated with Consciousness:

Related Topics

• Unconsciousness

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Consciousness

• Cognition
• Psychophysiology

Source - MeSH 2007

• cognition

Source - CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Consciousness:

• psychic activity level

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Consciousness

The following list attempts to classify Consciousness into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Psychological Phenomena and Processes
  • Mental Processes
    • Cognition
      • Consciousness

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Psychological Phenomena and Processes
  • Psychophysiology
    • Consciousness

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