Includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

• The faculty of bodily perception
• Sensory systems associated with the body

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs [syn: somesthesia , somaesthesia , somaesthesis , somatesthesia , somatatesthesis , somatosensory system , somatic ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement