Definitions for sense of touch
sense of touch

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1. touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous sensesnoun

   the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

   "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"

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1. sense of touch

   In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch (haptic perception), as well as temperature (thermoception), body position (proprioception), and pain. It is a subset of the sensory nervous system, which also represents visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory stimuli. Somatosensation begins when mechano- and thermosensitive structures in the skin or internal organs sense physical stimuli such as pressure on the skin (see mechanotransduction, nociception). Activation of these structures, or receptors, leads to activation of peripheral sensory neurons that convey signals to the spinal cord as patterns of action potentials. Sensory information is then processed locally in the spinal cord to drive reflexes, and is also conveyed to the brain for conscious perception of touch and proprioception. Note, somatosensory information from the face and head enters the brain through peripheral sensory neurons in the cranial nerves, such as the trigeminal nerve. The neural pathways that go to the brain are structured such that information about the location of the physical stimulus is preserved. In this way, neighboring neurons in the somatosensory cerebral cortex in the brain represent nearby locations on the skin or in the body, creating a map, also called a cortical homunculus.

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1. sense of touch

   The sense of touch, also known as tactile sense or somatosensation, is one of the five traditional senses that allows organisms to perceive and interpret the stimuli related to pressure, temperature, and pain that contact or affects their bodies. This sense operates through a system of receptors in the skin and other parts of the body which send information to the brain through the nervous system.

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1. • Exteroception
   • Somatosense

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sense of touch in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sense of touch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6