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touch perception

DEFINITIONS OF: touch perception

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n the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

Synonyms:
skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation
Type of:
somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
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