(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.
Tingle
Definition:
(v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.
(v. i.) To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.
(v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain in the anterolateral thigh.
(2) There is a reason for this and it is not merely the deeply ingrained tribal loyalty of a boy who still remembers the thrill of his first visit to the Stretford End or the tingle of excitement when offered a job as a paperboy by a former United star (in those days retired footballers had to work for a living).
(3) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
(4) The patient developed subacute symptoms over a 1-month period consisting of progressive pain, tingling, and weakness of the lower extremities.
(5) But I reckon Laura Tingle is dead right on the substantive challenge - the statement just shows the country can no longer coast.
(6) During the study, patients were asked about subjective neurologic symptoms such as tingling and numbness.
(7) Following routine inferior alveolar nerve block anesthesia, time is allowed for subjective signs of "tingling" of the lower lip.
(8) Similarly, the prevalence of numbness and tingling in the hands and fingers in the three exposure groups was 84%, 50%, and 17%.
(9) Side-effects with delmopinol were transient tingling and numbness of the tongue in some subjects.
(10) Another agent was benzocaine, a local anaesthetic used by dentists that produces a tingling sensation in the nose akin to that produced by cocaine.
(11) Among the exposed workers, the members of paediatric surgical staffs reported a higher rate of neurological complaints (tingling, numbness, cramps) and tiredness than the members of the other surgical staffs.
(12) A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of tingling numbness in the trunk and upper extremities.
(13) Complaints of weakness and tingling in hands and feet, together with low-grade changes in nerve conduction, suggest the possible influence of agents with a neurotoxic esterase-type activity independent of cholinesterase activity.
(14) A good answer on hot flushes and "irritability, anxiety, depression" was obtained by Trazodone, while Veralipride showed to be more active on all neurovegetative symptoms (hot flushes, sweatings, tinglings, palpitations, astenia).
(15) The sensory changes include burning pain, numbness, tingling, and loss of sensation, while the motor changes range from weakness to complete paralysis.
(16) The commonest symptoms were numbness or tingling in the legs and feet and gait disturbance.
(17) The most common sensation was a numbness and tingling in the ipsilateral arm when the chest was being treated.
(18) The pain intensified and numbness, tingling and paraesthesia developed over 24 hours.
(19) The academic Ross Garnaut, who advised the former Labor government about climate policy, responded to a call for concrete ideas from participants from the summit moderator, Australian Financial Review journalist Laura Tingle, by suggesting Australia could adopt an economy-wide carbon price and use the revenue raised to repair the budget deficit.
(20) With subcutaneous sumatriptan (4-8 mg) similar events were observed, but certain distinctive symptoms variously described as heaviness, pressure sensation, tingling, feelings of heat or warmth, were more common and affected various parts of the body.