Crossword clues for proprioception
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
WordNet
n. the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
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 by proprioceptors ( muscle spindles) in skeletal striated muscles and tendons ( Golgi tendon organ) and the fibrous capsules in joints. It is distinguished from exteroception, by which one perceives the outside world, and interoception, by which one perceives pain, hunger, etc., and the movement of internal organs.
The brain integrates information from proprioception and from the vestibular system into its overall sense of body position, movement, and acceleration. The word kinesthesia or kinæsthesia'' (kinesthetic sense'') strictly means movement sense, but has been used inconsistently to refer either to proprioception alone or to the brain's integration of proprioceptive and vestibular inputs.
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.