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somatesthesia
 
Noun somatesthesia has 2 senses
  1. somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation - the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
    --1 is a kind of perception
    --1 has particulars:
     feeling; prickling, tingle, tingling; pressure, pressure sensation; pain, painful sensation; temperature
  2. somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatatesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
    --2 is a kind of interoception
    --2 has parts:
     touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses; proprioception
     --2 has particulars:
     tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness; kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement
somaly soman somana somas somata somatas somatatesthesis somateria somatesthesia somatic somatic cell somatic cell nuclear transfer somatic cell nuclear transplantation somatic chromosome somatic delusion somatic mutation somatic sensation

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