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Noun: somesthesis
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: somaesthesis)
  1. The faculty of bodily perception, including skin senses, proprioception, and internal organ sensations
    "Somesthesis provides crucial information about our physical state";
    - somesthesia [N. Amer], somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense

Derived forms: somesthesises

Type of: interoception

Encyclopedia: Somesthesis