somatosense
Noun: A somatosense is any one of the sensory systems within the body that are responsible for detecting and processing internal bodily sensations. These systems collectively mediate the physical feelings of touch, temperature, body position, movement, and pain.
The term somatosense is used to refer collectively or individually to the group of senses related to bodily perception, distinct from the special senses like sight or hearing. It is a technical term primarily used in neuroscience, psychology, and medicine.
- The sense of touch and the sense of limb position are both types of somatosense.
- Damage to the nervous system can impair one's somatosense, making it difficult to feel pain or temperature.
- Studying the somatosense helps scientists understand how the brain interprets signals from the skin, muscles, and joints.
- Somatosensory Cortex: This is the region of the brain that processes information from the somatosenses.
- The somatosensory cortex receives input from various somatosenses to create a map of the body.
- Somatosensory (adjective): Relating to or denoting the somatosenses.
- Somatosensory neurons carry information from the skin to the brain.
- Somatosensation (noun): The collective sensory experience provided by the somatosenses; the perception of bodily sensations.
- Somatosensation includes the feelings of warmth, pressure, and proprioception.
- Bodily sense
- Somatic sense
- Somatosensory system (when referring to the collective mechanism)
The concept of a somatosense encompasses several specific modalities: 1. Mechanoreception: Sensing pressure, vibration, and tickle. 2. Thermoreception: Sensing warmth and cold. 3. Nociception: Sensing pain. 4. Proprioception: Sensing limb position and movement.
It is a singular noun; its plural form is somatosenses.
- any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain