Somesthesia

Of interoception.   May also be referred to as somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system and somesthesis.

The faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs.

This concept's ID is @1~30824

Somatosense

  • touch 0 facts

    The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body...

  • kinesthesia 0 facts

    The perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc.

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  • proprioception 3 facts

    The ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the...

  • tactual sensation 0 facts

    The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain.