Definition
noun
A somatosensory sensation; the perception of sensory stimuli coming from the skin that involves senses of touch, temperature, body position, and pain.
Supplement
Somatosensation is a collective term for the sensations of touch, temperature, body position, and pain recognized through neural receptors in the skin and certain internal organs. Thus, it includes processes such as”
- mechanoreception
- thermoreception
- proprioception
- nociception
Word origin: somato– from soma (body) + sensation
Related form(s): somatosensory (adjective)
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