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somesthesis

somesthesis noun: all of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement.

Noun

somesthesis (uncountable)

  1. All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement

Origin of somesthesis

Blend of somatic + esthesis.

Questions about somesthesis

What does somesthesis mean?
Somesthesis means all of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement.
What part of speech is somesthesis?
Somesthesis is a noun.

Words near somesthesis in the dictionary

  1. Somervillians
  2. Somes
  3. Someses
  4. somesing
  5. somesthesia
  6. somesthesis
  7. somesthetic
  8. somesthetically
  9. somesthetics
  10. somesuch
  11. somethang

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