A decreased sensation or numbness when a painful stimuli is applied. This is generally due to a bruising, with subsequent swelling or a sensory nerve, as a result of jaw surgery or an injury. Also known as "hypoesthesia".
Excessive sensibility to touch, pain or other stimuli.
Increased sensation to touch.
Grossly exaggerated tactile stimuli.
Abnormal acuteness of sensitivity to touch, pain, or other sensory stimuli.
Unusual sensitivity to sensory stimulus, hyper irritability, or increased muscular sensitivity to pain.
Very unpleasant, exaggerated response to touch associated with nerve root irritation, often described as burning.
An abnormal or pathological increase in sensitivity to sensory stimuli, as of the skin to touch or the ear to sound.
Hyperesthesia (or Hyperaesthesia) is a condition that involves an abnormal increase in sensitivity to stimuli of the senses. Stimuli of the senses can include sound that one hears, foods that one tastes, textures that one feels, and so forth.