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Somesthesis

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Noun
  1. 1
    All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement uncountable
  2. 2
    the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs wordnet

Etymology

Blend of somatic + esthesis.

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