somaesthesia

Noun

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

• the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
  • he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes
    

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• Synonyms: 
  somesthesia , somesthesis , somaesthesis , somatesthesia , somataesthesis , somatosensory system , somatic sensory system , somatic sense , somatic sensation