Noun: somatic sensory system
- The faculty of bodily perception, including skin senses, proprioception, and internal organ sensations
"somatic sensory system provides crucial information about our physical state";
- somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer], somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sense
Derived forms: somatic sensory systems
Type of: interoception
Encyclopedia: Somatic sensory system