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Definition of Somatic sensation
1. Noun. The perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations. "He relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
Generic synonyms: Perception
Specialized synonyms: Feeling, Prickling, Tingle, Tingling, Pressure, Pressure Sensation, Pain, Pain Sensation, Painful Sensation, Temperature
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somatic Sensation
Literary usage of Somatic sensation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"What is known as the ' coloring and shading' of feeling is a matter, not of
feeling itself, but of concomitant presentation, of ' somatic sensation. ..."
2. The Women's Health and Aging Study: Health and Social Characteristics of edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty (1996)
"The percentage of subjects reporting abnormal somatic sensation decreased with
age and ... which assesses extremely severe loss of somatic sensation. ..."
3. Epilepsy and Other Chronic Convulsive Diseases: Their Causes, Symptoms, and by William Richard Gowers (1901)
"Some form of somatic sensation is a not uncommon accompaniment of minor attacks,
but the varieties of this are extremely numerous. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"... attempt been made to inquire into visual dissociations in the light of recent
additions to our knowledge of cerebral disturbances of somatic sensation. ..."
5. The Nervous System of Vertebrates by John Black Johnston (1906)
"activities called forth by impulses from different organs of somatic sensation.
A well developed brachium conjunctivum is present and probably consists in ..."
6. The Nervous System of Vertebrates by John Black Johnston (1906)
"activities called forth by impulses from different organs of somatic sensation.
A well developed brachium conjunctivum is present and probably consists in ..."
7. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... and perhaps the ruber, with general and somatic sensation. The second embryonic
vesicle is less profoundly modified, though its ventral aspect is ..."
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