somatosense

Definitions of somatosense

1. noun

   any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain
   types:

   cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality

   the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

   feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia

   the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc

   type of:

   modality, sense modality, sensory system

   a particular sense