Category: S

Any occurrence in a professional health care setting that causes serious injury or the risk of serious injury to patients. Most sentinel events occur because of unanticipated errors, e.g., neonatal kidnappings, patient suicides, and wrong-site surgeries.  

The state of being sensual, in which one’s actions are dominated by the emotions. The condition of being governed by basic passions, instincts, or emotions.  

A single sensory neuron with its receptors.  

The brain’s ability to receive input and select that which will receive attention and that which will be inhibited from conscious attention.  

A condition in which sensory stimuli are received at an excessive rate or intensity. Sensory overload can produce increases in heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, confusion, anxiety, mental distress, and/or erratic behavior.  

The momentary storage in the brain of images or sensations just felt, heard, seen, smelled, or tasted. Sensory memories typically last only a few seconds.  

A standardized battery of assessment tests to identify motor planning and sensory processing deficits in children 4 through 8 years of age. It includes 17 subtests.  

Skill and performance required in the development and coordination of sensory input, motor output, and sensory feedback. It includes sensory awareness, visual spatial awareness, body integration, balance, bilateral motor coordination, visuomotor integration, praxis, and other components.  

Disturbances of sensation without convulsions.  

A termination of an afferent nerve fiber that upon stimulation gives rise to a sensation.