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Noun: somatosensory system
  1. The faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
    - somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer], somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatic sensory system, somatic sense

Derived forms: somatosensory systems

Type of: interoception

Encyclopedia: Somatosensory system

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