somatic sensory system

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somatic sensory system - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatosensory system, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somesthesia, somatesthesia interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, touch - the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us" proprioception - the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts skin perceptiveness, tactility, touch perception, tactual sensation - the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia - the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc