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Somesthesis Moderate

Somesthesis has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
interoception
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
tactual sensation kinesthesia
Rhyming Words
sis asis ssis osis csis psis isis apsis iasis mysis oasis arsis ensis assis basis lysis tasis sepsis miosis deesis
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