(n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
(n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
(n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(2) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
(3) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(4) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
(5) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
(6) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(8) No significant changes in maximal work load, exercise time, systolic blood pressure at maximal work load, or subjective sensation of well-being could be demonstrated during combined drug treatment.
(9) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
(10) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
(11) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
(12) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
(13) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
(14) The incidence of phantom pain and nonpainful phantom sensations was 13.3% and 15.0%, respectively, 3 weeks after mastectomy, 12.7% and 11.8%, respectively, after a year, and 17.4% and 11.8%, respectively, after 6 years.
(15) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
(16) The return of sensation is of particular benefit to elderly patients who make up the greatest number of patients in the series.
(17) The subjects described the thirst sensations as mainly due to a dry unpleasant tasting mouth, which was promptly relieved by drinking.
(18) Similarly, subjects that were trained to focus their attention on the magnitude of the immediate (first) pain sensation evoked by brief electrical or mechanical stimulation did not report reduction by morphine of pain attributed to conduction in myelinated peripheral nociceptors.
(19) This scale thus provides a reproducible and sensitive estimation of the sensation of dyspnoea during effort and thus appears valuable in evaluating the subjective response in therapeutic trials in patients who are dyspnoeic on effort.
(20) Examination revealed that five patients in the nerve divided group had a small area of altered sensation but this was not significant either for the patient or statistically between the groups.
Sentiency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) For males, positive correlations were obtained between Abstract and Achievement, Endurance and Sentience; while negative correlations were obtained between Abstract and Harmavoidance and Order, respectively.
(2) At this point, I merely refer you to Mary Anne Warren's chapter on Abortion and Human Rights in Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things , wherein she clearly explains the biological and moral justifications to not grant sentience, and therefore equal moral status, to first- and early second-trimester foetuses.
(3) The correlates were measured by Perceived Field Motion, Human Field Rhythms, Creativity, Sentience, Fast Tempo, and Waking Periods.
(4) He listed (1) a self-agency, representing the recognition of one's volition and capacity to act; (2) a sense of self-coherence, representing a sentience of what remains constant within one's own purveyance; (3) a sense of self-affectivity, representing the recognition of feelings, that is, the subjective aspect of affective living; and (4) a sense of self-history, representing a registration of continuity and a recognition of what "goes on being."
(5) Very tentative observations are made concerning the implications of neuromaturational events for the development of fetal sentience and fetal pain.
(6) He sees no solid basis for grounding the scope of moral obligations on simple sentience, membership in the human species, or technical differentia such as viability, and concludes that medical ethics still suffers from the lack of an adequate theory on which to base a right to life.
(7) Our thinking about sentience is not advanced a great deal, as we as yet have no good way of talking about it at the brainstem level.
(8) We already interact with things that have only the semblance of sentience.
(9) If, however, the universe is actually the product of a rational Mind and evolution is simply the search engine that in leading to sentience and consciousness allows us to discover the fundamental architecture of the universe – a point many mathematicians intuitively sense when they speak of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics – then things not only start to make much better sense, but they are also much more interesting.
(10) Finally, it is argued that, since the capacities for sentience, a minimal condition for personhood, are never realized by an anencephalic, the entity has never been alive as a person.
(11) However, since sentience is a characteristic of other animals as well as man, logically the ethics applied to mankind must be extended to encompass all animals.
(12) But no triumph in complicated games can bring us closer to genuinely autonomous and conscious computers: the test for true sentience would be a program bewildered and frightened by the knowledge of mortality.
(13) Host factors relevant to the healing and knowing of sickness must be elucidated so that medicine may rediscover the sentience of its patients.
(14) However, they lack the physiological development necessary to sustain a capacity for sentience.
(15) Jake Schreier, director of Robot & Frank: 'We already interact with things that have only the semblance of sentience.'
(16) Of course, if we’re talking ambition, Tony Stark’s Jarvis ended up gaining sentience before being incarnated into a body built around the cosmic energy of the soul gem and defeating the evil machine intelligence Ultron.
(17) The relationship between the one-time sentience of their meal and being sated by it disturbs them.
(18) Elsewhere, Ian Beale's journey from mute vagrancy to spluttering sentience continues apace.
(19) But the more important point is that their lack of a capacity for sentience makes them inappropriate candidates for the ascription of moral rights.
(20) Whether given life by Serkis himself or a few strokes of the post-production animator's virtual paintbrush (the argument remains unresolved), here was a creature whose sentience came across as instantly creepy – even demonic – the moment you looked into its eyes.