Somesthesia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    somatesthesia uncountable
  2. 2
    the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs wordnet
  3. 3
    the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations wordnet

Etymology

From soma + -esthesia.

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