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somatic sense
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Noun somatic sense has 1 sense
- somatic sense(n = noun.cognition) somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs; Array is a kind of interoception
has parts: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality, proprioception
has particulars: skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation, touch perception, feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia
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