somesthesis
Noun
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The faculty of bodily perception;
Sensory systems associated with the body;
Includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs (synset 105667701)is a type of: interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the bodysubtypes:- 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
has:- cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality - the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- proprioception - the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
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