Temperature sense


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(Physiol.) the faculty of perceiving cold and warmth, and so of perceiving differences of temperature in external objects.
- H. N. Martin.

See also: Temperature

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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