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Proprioception

//ˌpɹoʊ.pɹi.oʊˈsɛp.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body. countable, uncountable

    "[…] it is achieved through a neuromuscular feedback system known as proprioception or kinaesthetic awareness, as well as through an auditory control system in which the ear monitors the sound and makes […]"

  2. 2
    the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts wordnet

Etymology

From proprioceptor, from Latin proprius (“one's own”) + reception. Coined by British neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington in 1906.

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