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Meaning of SOMESTHESIA

 
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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
  2. [n]  the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
 

SOMESTHESIA is a 11 letter word that starts with S.

 

 Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatatesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis
 
 See Also: cutaneous senses, feeling, feeling of movement, interoception, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, pain, painful sensation, perception, pressure, pressure sensation, prickling, proprioception, sense of touch, skin perceptiveness, skin senses, tactility, tactual sensation, temperature, tingle, tingling, touch, touch modality, touch perception

 

 

 

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