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Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

s[=e]-nes-th[=e]'sis, n. the general bodily consciousness. [Gr. koinos, common, aisth[=e]sis, perception.]