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SOMATOSENSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("somatosense" is a kind of...):
modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "somatosense"):
cutaneous senses; sense of touch; skin senses; touch; touch modality (the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands))
feeling of movement; kinaesthesia; kinesthesia (the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc)
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