dictionary help| epicritic | medical dictionary |
That aspect of somatic sensation which permits the discrimination and the topographical localization of the finer degrees of touch and temperature stimuli.
Compare: protopathic.
Origin: G. Epikritikos, adjudicatory, fr. Epi, on, + krino, to separate, judge
(05 Mar 2000)
epicranial muscle, epicranium, epicranius muscle, epicrisis < Prev | Next > epicritic sensibility, epictetain, epicycle
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