touch modality

Noun
  1. The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) (synset 105662964)
    "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"
    is a type of:
    • exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
    • somatosense - any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain
    is a part of: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
    same as: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch

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