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 |
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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) |
Broader | modality, sense modality, sensory system | A particular sense |
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Spanish | somatosense |
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Catalan | somatosense |
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Adjectives | somatosensory | of or relating to the somatosenses |
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