(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.
Telepathy
Definition:
(n.) The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This kind of reading feeds our imaginations and in them, we create people and places and experiences, in what Will Self described beautifully, as a kind of telepathy.
(2) Schneider's first rank symptoms and a belief in telepathy discriminated schizophrenics more reliably than other paranormal experiences.
(3) We report the case of a paranoid schizophrenic man who suffered from the delusion that two other men used mental telepathy to make him itch over a period of thirteen years.
(4) The phenomenon of telepathy in the treatment process is explained by reference to the subliminal theory of dreams of psychoanalysis and to certain aspects of experimental dream research.
(5) The belief that one can read others' minds has long been considered a symptom of psychosis, despite reports in the parapsychological literature of veridical telepathy.
(6) The crows parted from their flexible host, lacking the telepathy or ability to keep up.
(7) Especially interested in telepathy, and in general, extrasensory perception phenomena, he contributed decisively to the creation of a new science, metapsychics.
(8) Working with any film-maker, he says, involves a degree of telepathy.
(9) Empathy and diversity were expected to be related to telepathy levels.
(10) You’ll roll a set of six dice which let you score points, attack other monsters or build up energy which you can use to gain special powers like telepathy, fiery breath or an extra head.
(11) The gifted Brazilian was inspired against Jürgen Klopp’s side, creating the opening goal for Daniel Sturridge with a sublime touch, scoring the third and reassuring the Liverpool faithful that quick thinking, telepathy and glorious creativity has not disappeared from the team along with Luis Suárez.
(12) The authors conclude that this experiment strongly suggests the possibility of telepathy, but does not prove it.
(13) Possible psychodynamics of delusions of telepathy were discussed in view of the predominance of women and younger men reporting them, as were the possible effects of such research on patients' delusions.
(14) The purpose of this study was to examine empathy, diversity, and telepathy in natural mother-daughter dyads.
(15) By 1937, having recorded independently of each other, they cut some startlingly elegant music together, displaying an unparalleled musical compatibility that verged on telepathy.
(16) Results indicated that one form of empathy (personal distress) and diversity were significantly (p less than .05) related to telepathy.
(17) They’re like a murmur of crows, they seem able to read where their team-mates are going with something close to telepathy.
(18) Multiple regression analysis showed that 6% of the variance in telepathy was accounted for by diversity and empathy.
(19) And he argues that the game of chess is a "certain code that another civilization gave us" and suggests that it could help man recover his lost abilities of flight and telepathy.
(20) Today, the ancient memory arts have applications in pilot training, gambling, mentalism and telepathy demonstrations, and may have a role in the rehabilitation of brain-damaged patients.