NOUN | cognition | somatosense | any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain |
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Meaning | Any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain. | |
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Narrower | kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement | The perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc |
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) | |
Broader | modality, sense modality, sensory system | A particular sense |
Spanish | somatosense | |
Catalan | somatosense | |
Adjectives | somatosensory | of or relating to the somatosenses |
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