Definition of somatosensory system Somatosensory system

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What does somatosensory system mean?

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somatosensory 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, somatic sensory 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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The somatosensory system is a sensory system that detects experiences labelled as touch or pressure, temperature (warm or cold), pain (including itch and tickle) and those that belong to proprioception. These are the sensations of muscle movement and joint position including posture, movement, visceral (internal) senses and facial expression. Visceral senses have to do with sensory information from within the body, such as stomach aches.

Touch may be considered one of five human senses; however, when a person touches something or somebody this gives rise to various feelings: the perception of pressure (shape, softness, texture, vibration, etc.), relative temperature and sometimes pain. Thus the term "touch" is actually the combined term for several senses. In medicine, the colloquial term "touch" is usually replaced with somatic senses, to better reflect the variety of mechanisms involved.

somatosensory system in sign language