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The ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
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proprioception
Word definitions for proprioception in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Proprioception , from Latin proprius , meaning "one's own", "individual", and capio, capere , to take or grasp, is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement. In humans, it is provided ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1906, from proprioceptor , from Latin proprius "own" (see proper ) + reception . Coined by English neurophysiologist C.S. Sherrington (1857-1952). Related: Proprioceptive ; proprioceptor .
Usage examples of proprioception.
She lost all sense of proprioception, although given the tumbling fall of the proxy that was a blessing.
She was blind, and deaf, and her senses of smell and taste and touch and proprioception vanished.
Almost overbalanced, in fact, still not used to the reflex speed of this new body, proprioception still a little off, moving through space faster than I thought I was.
She lost all sense of proprioception, although given the tumbling fall of the proxy, that was a blessing.
Bulldogs' star power forward had been diagnosed with an extremely rare neurologic disorder called Post-Coital Vestibulitis375 in which for several hours after intercourse the power forward tended to suffer such a terrible vertiginous loss of proprioception that he literally couldn't tell his ass from his elbow, much less make an authoritative move to the bucket.
Proprioception, the vestibular sense, vision: all the senses by which the body knows itself had gone.