somatosensory system

Questions about somatosensory system

What does somatosensory system mean?

somatosensory 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 somatosensory 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 somatosensory system a common word?

somatosensory 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.