aesth-, esth-, aesthe-, esthe-, aesthesio-, esthesio-, aesthesia-, -esthesia, -aesthetic, -esthetic, -aesthetical, -esthetical, -aesthetically, -esthetically +

1. Localized application of cold as a means of producing regional anesthesia.
2. Inability to perceive cold.
3. Loss of the perception of cold, as during hypothermia or from the application of certain freezing compounds.

Also the intentional application of cold (such as, with liquid nitrogen, etc.) to produce anesthesia for a short duration operation; that is, as with the lancing of a boil, removal of a nevus, cosmetic “sandpapering” of the skin, etc.

1. A subjective sensation of cold.
2. Sensitiveness to cold.

1. The freezing of the skin with ice, carbon dioxide snow, or the evaporation of ethyl chloride. It is used in preparing the skin for the surgical excision of superficial tumors, incisions, and drainage.
2. Anesthesia by freezing.

The freezing of the skin with ice, carbon dioxide snow, or the evaporation of ethyl chloride.

It is used in preparing the skin for the surgical excision of superficial tumors, incisions, and drainage.

1. The power of perceiving without a sensory mechanism; clairvoyance.
2. A general term for clairvoyance, clairaudience, and other types of paranormal cognition in which the sensory stimulus is unknown.

A condition whereby people have sensitive skin.

Pain, paresthesiae, and numbness restricted to the distribution of a single digital nerve.

1. Abnormal sensations on the skin; such as, a feeling of numbness, tingling, prickling (as if with pins and needles), or a burning or cutting pain; also paresthesia.
2. Difficulty or derangement of sensation, or of any bodily senses; also applied to a class of diseases of which this is a symptom.
3. Abnormal sensations experienced in the absence of stimulation.
4. Distortion of the sense of touch.

It may be organically or psychically determined.

A disorder of the sense of temperature, or heat, perception.

Anesthesia produced by an electric current.

The condition of having a sensitive digestive tract.

An instrument for recording the amount of work done during muscular activity.

Also known as ergometer or ergograph.

The science of the senses, and sense organs, and their functions.

Another spelling version (U.S.) of aesthesia, or the ability to feel, and to perceive, sensations.

Anesthesia, Part 1 of 3.