SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somatosensory system mean? 

• SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis

Hypernyms ("somatosensory system" is a kind of...):

interoception (sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body)

Meronyms (parts of "somatosensory system"):

cutaneous senses; sense of touch; skin senses; touch; touch modality (the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands))

proprioception (the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "somatosensory system"):

skin perceptiveness; tactility; tactual sensation; touch perception (the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain)

feeling of movement; kinaesthesia; kinesthesia (the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc)