Definitions for: Somesthesis


[n] the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs



Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatatesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia

See Also: cutaneous senses, feeling of movement, interoception, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, proprioception, sense of touch, skin perceptiveness, skin senses, tactility, tactual sensation, touch, touch modality, touch perception

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