Sensation

Introduction: Sensation

Description of Sensation

Sensation: transduction of stimuli from outside the body and those within the body into nerve impulses by receptors, and the transmission of these impulses by afferent neurons to the cerebral cortex.
Source: CRISP

Sensation: Transduction of physical or chemical changes in the external or internal environment into nerve impulses by specialized receptors, transmission of these impulses by afferent neurons to the effectors, either directly or through the CNS.
Source: MeSH 2007

Sensation: Related Topics

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

• Sensation symptoms (6520 causes)
• Feeling
• Translation
• Consciousness
• Consciousness symptoms (1504 causes)
• Stimulus
• Organs
• Sense
• Span

Terms associated with Sensation:

Related Topics

• Perception

Source - MeSH 2007

More specific terms for Sensation:

• Hearing
• Pain
• Proprioception
• Smell
• Taste
• Temperature Sense
• Touch
• Vision
• Gravity Perception

Source - MeSH 2007

• hearing
• hunger
• olfaction
• pain
• proprioception /kinesthesia
• sensory mechanism
• somesthesis
• taste
• thermoreception
• touch
• vision

Source - CRISP

Broader terms for Sensation

• Psychophysiology
• Nervous System Physiologic Processes

Source - MeSH 2007

• neuropsychology

Source - CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Sensation:

• perception
• sense organ

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Sensation

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

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Psychological Phenomena and Processes
  • Psychophysiology
    • Sensation

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Musculoskeletal, Neural, and Ocular Physiology
  • Nervous System Physiology
    • Nervous System Physiologic Processes
      • Sensation

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