somesthesia meaning

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somesthesia (noun): the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations.

Spelling: somaesthesia (British) · somesthesia (American)

somesthesia has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

somesthesia as a noun

  1. the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
    • he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes

    Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation

    Type of: perception

    Kinds: feeling, prickling, pressure, pain, temperature

  2. the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

    Synonyms: somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense

    Type of: interoception

    Kinds: tactual sensation, kinesthesia

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