| dissociation sensibility | The loss of the pain and the thermal senses with preservation of tactile sensibility or vice versa. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| articular sensibility | Appreciation of sensation in joint surfaces. Synonym: arthresthesia, joint sense. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bone sensibility | The appreciation of vibration, a form of pressure sense; most acute when a vibrating tuning fork is applied over a bony prominence. Synonym: bone sensibility, pallesthetic sensibility, vibratory sensibility. Origin: G. Pallo, to quiver, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallesthetic sensibility | The appreciation of vibration, a form of pressure sense; most acute when a vibrating tuning fork is applied over a bony prominence. Synonym: bone sensibility, pallesthetic sensibility, vibratory sensibility. Origin: G. Pallo, to quiver, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| vibratory sensibility | The appreciation of vibration, a form of pressure sense; most acute when a vibrating tuning fork is applied over a bony prominence. Synonym: bone sensibility, pallesthetic sensibility, vibratory sensibility. Origin: G. Pallo, to quiver, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| mesoblastic sensibility | The sensation felt in muscle when it is contracting; awareness of movement or activity in muscles or joints; sense of position or movement mediated in large part by the posterior columns and medial lemniscus. See: bathyesthesia. Synonym: deep sensibility, kinesthetic sense, mesoblastic sensibility, muscular sense, myoesthesis, myoesthesia. Origin: G. Mys, muscle, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| cortical sensibility | The integration of sensory stimuli by the cerebral cortex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| proprioceptive sensibility | <physiology> Capable of receiving stimuli originating in muscles, tendons, and other internal tissues. Origin: L. Proprius, one's own, + capio, to take (05 Mar 2000) |
| protopathic sensibility | See: protopathic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sensibility | Origin: Cf. F. Sensibilite, LL. Sensibilitas. 1. <physiology> The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. 2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; often used in the plural. "Sensibilities so fine!" "The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility." (Burke) "His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride." (Marshall) 3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. "This adds greatly to my sensibility." (Burke) 4. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer. Synonym: Taste, susceptibility, feeling. See Taste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| splanchnesthetic sensibility | The perception of the existence of the internal organs. Synonym: seventh sense, splanchnesthesia, splanchnesthetic sensibility. (05 Mar 2000) |
| deep sensibility | bathyesthesia, myesthesia |
| electromuscular sensibility | Sensibility of muscular tissue to stimulation by electricity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epicritic sensibility | See: epicritic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acid dissociation constant | <chemistry> This is the equilibrium constant for the breaking apart of a weak acid into its hydrogen and conjugate base in a water solution. (09 Oct 1997) |
| albuminocytologic dissociation | Increased protein in the cerebrospinal fluid without increase in cell count, characteristic of the Guillain-Barre syndrome; it is also associated with spinal block and with intracranial neoplasia, and is seen in the last phases of poliomyelitis. (05 Mar 2000) |