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somatic sense

DEFINITIONS OF: somatic sense

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

Synonyms:
somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis
Types:
skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation, touch perception
the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia
the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
Type of:
interoception
sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
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