proprioception

pro·pri·o·cep·tion  (prpr--spshn)

n.

The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself.

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[Latin proprius, one's own; see per¹ in Indo-European roots + (re)ception.]

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proprioception  (prpr--spshn)

The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself. In humans, these stimuli are detected by nerves within the body itself, as well as by the semicircular canals of the inner ear.

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proprioception - the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia - the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body kinanesthesia - inability to sense movement labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense, equilibrium - a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs