SOMAESTHESIA: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Matching Terms:			somaesthesis
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs [n]  the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
	Synonyms:		somaesthesis, somatatesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis
	See Also:		cutaneous senses, feeling, feeling of movement, interoception, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, pain, painful sensation, perception, pressure, pressure sensation, prickling, proprioception, sense of touch, skin perceptiveness, skin senses, tactility, tactual sensation, temperature, tingle, tingling, touch, touch modality, touch perception