somatic sensory system

Questions about somatic sensory system

What does somatic sensory system mean?

somatic sensory system means "the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs".

What is another word for somatic sensory system?

Close synonyms include somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is somatic sensory system a common word?

somatic sensory system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.