Medical Definition of esthesia
: capacity for sensation and feeling : sensibility.
What does the root Dipsia mean?
Combining form denoting thirst or drinking.
Is Esthesia a root word?
The ability to perceive a stimulus. Aesthesia has fallen into disuse as an independent term, with the words sensation and sensibility filling the lexical gap; however, the root form, -aesthesia (as in anaethesia, paraesthesia, etc.), is in common active use in the working medical parlance.
