cutaneous sensation
- noun
- /kjuːˈteɪniəs sɛnˈseɪʃən/
- Specialized
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sensación cutánea
- Some neurological disorders can affect cutaneous sensation, leading to numbness or tingling.
Examples
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The patient exhibited a complete loss of cutaneous sensation in his left hand after the accident.
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Can you feel cutaneous sensations in your fingertips?
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Doctors evaluate cutaneous sensation to check for nerve damage during physical examinations.
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The cutaneous sensation on my arm was very sharp.
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Doctors evaluate cutaneous sensation to check for nerve damage during physical examinations.
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The patient exhibited a complete loss of cutaneous sensation in his left hand after the accident.
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Some neurological disorders can affect cutaneous sensation, leading to numbness or tingling.
Synonyms
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1.0
A physical sensation you notice through touch or inside your body
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3.5
A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat
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3.3
A small prickly feeling on the skin often caused by excitement or cold
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3.4
A slight prickling feeling like many tiny pins touching the skin
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4.9
The feeling you get when your skin is touched or pressed
A feeling you have on the surface of the skin
A feeling on the skin when something presses or rests on it
A feeling you get through your skin when you touch something
A feeling on your skin when you touch or press something
A feeling on the skin when something pushes on it
A feeling in your body that tells you about touch or where your arms and legs are
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sensation perceived on the skin' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cutaneous' (connected to the skin) with 'sensation' (a physical feeling). This ADJ+N compound follows a regular compositional pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning even if 'cutaneous' is slightly technical.
Etymology
Cutaneous sensation comes from a simple image: cutaneous means 'skin' and sensation means 'feeling', so it literally means the 'feeling on the skin'. That's why it means feelings like touch, temperature, pain, or pressure on the skin.