English > somatesthesia: 2 senses > noun 2, cognition| Meaning | The faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs. |
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| Synonyms | somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense |
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| Parts | proprioception | The ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts |
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| touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses | The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) |
| Narrower | kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement | The perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc |
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| tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness | The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain |
| Broader | interoception | sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body |
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| Catalan | sistema somatosensorial |
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