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

[ Syn: somesthesia , somatesthesia , somatic sensation ]

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

[ Syn: somesthesia , somesthesis , somaesthesis , somatesthesia , somataesthesis , somatosensory system , somatic sensory system , somatic sense ]