Noun: cutaneous senses
- The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
"only sight and cutaneous senses enable us to locate objects in the space around us";
- touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality
Type of: exteroception, somatosense
Part of: somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer]