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Descriptor English: Sensory Thresholds
Descriptor Spanish: Umbral Sensorial
Descriptor umbrales sensitivos
Scope note: Mínima cantidad de energía de estímulo necesaria para desencadenar una respuesta sensitiva.
Descriptor Portuguese: Limiar Sensorial
Descriptor French: Seuils sensoriels
Entry term(s): Sensory Threshold
Threshold, Sensory
Thresholds, Sensory
Tree number(s): F02.463.593.710
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012684
Scope note: The minimum amount of stimulus energy necessary to elicit a sensory response.
Annotation: IM GEN or unspecified; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; PAIN THRESHOLD; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION & TASTE THRESHOLD are also available; coord NIM with specific sensory concept (IM), e.g., visual threshold = SENSORY THRESHOLD (NIM) + VISUAL PERCEPTION (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 79
History Note: 79; was THRESHOLD (NON MESH) before 1979
Related: Signal Detection, Psychological MeSH
DeCS ID: 13066
Unique ID: D012684
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Date Established: 1979/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/10
Sensory Thresholds - Preferred
Concept UI M0019661
Scope note The minimum amount of stimulus energy necessary to elicit a sensory response.
Preferred term Sensory Thresholds
Entry term(s) Sensory Threshold
Threshold, Sensory
Thresholds, Sensory



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