Definition of Somatesthesia

1. Noun. The perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations. "He relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"


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

Medical Definition of Somatesthesia

1. Bodily sensation, the conscious awareness of the body. Synonym: somesthesia. Origin: somat-+ G. Aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Somatesthesia

Somalian shilling
Somali peninsula
soman
soman
somans
somas
somasthenia
somat-
somata
somatagnosia
somatalgia
somatasthenia
somatatesthesis
Somateria
somatesthesia (current term)
somatesthesia (current term)
somatesthetic
somatic
somatic
somatical
somatically
somaticosplanchnic
somaticovisceral
somatics
somatic agglutinin
somatic antigen
somatic arteries
somatic cell
somatic cell
somatic cells

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