proprioception
Noun
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The ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts (synset 105667466)
is a type of: interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the bodysubtypes:
- kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement - the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
- kinanesthesia - inability to sense movement
- equilibrium, labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense - a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
is a part 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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