Definition of somatic sensory system Somatic sensory system
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What does somatic sensory system mean?
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| somatic sensory system - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | ||
| somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sense | ||
| interoception sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body | ||
| cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, touch the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights" | ||
| proprioception the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts | ||
| skin perceptiveness, tactility, touch perception, tactual sensation the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain | ||
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