special sense

One or all of the five senses: feeling, hearing, seeing, smell, and taste.

Any of the five senses related to the organs of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

The traditional five senses in human kind are the senses of vision, hearing, taste, and smell, and touch. In medicine, the special senses are the first four of these; touch is specifically excluded as a special sense. Instead, the various aspects of touch (pain, heat, pressure) are all categorized as somatic senses.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Development of special senses

v • d • e Nervous system: Sensory systems / senses Special senses Visual system/sight Auditory system/hearing Chemoreception (Olfactory system/smell • Gustatory system/taste) Touch Pain • Heat • Balance • Mechanoreception (Pressure, vibration, proprioception) Other Sensory receptor • Equilibrioception

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