What is "proprioceptive"

Usage examples of "proprioceptive".

Deeper than his senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch lay his proprioceptive sense, the inner body knowing of its own existence in space and time.

Only because Danlo had honed his proprioceptive powers as he would a diamond chisel was his sense of reality so strong and keen.

It is the proprioceptive sensations with which we are least familiar but take most for granted.

The various proprioceptive sensations are sometimes lumped together as the position sense for this reason.

The heavier object requires a greater muscular force for a given rate of lift and our proprioceptive senses will tell us which arm is exerting the greater force.

However, where the proprioceptive senses tell us the position of one part of the body with relation to another, the vestibular sense tells us the position of the body as a whole with respect to its environment, especially with regard to the direction of the pull of gravity.

When a muscle is stretched, the proprioceptive nerve endings within it are the receptors of a reflex arc of which the effectors act to bring about a contraction that tends to counteract whatever force is bringing about the stretching.

At long last he could sense moisture again, smell greenness and mold and rot and vague floral odors, feel heat on his skin and the pounding of bare feet upon strewn earth and the proprioceptive flexing of muscles.

Here, notice how this patient is able to feel this temperature change but cannot have any proprioceptive sense, because I can move the toe in any direction without his being conscious of it.

His proprioceptive sensor webs were behind every sophisticated robot on the planet.

For the modulation of speech is normally proprioceptive, governed by inflowing impulses from all our vocal organs.

Christina had lost this normal inflow, this afference, and lost her normal proprioceptive vocal tone and posture, and there-tore had to use her ears, auditory feedback, instead.

So long as our vestibular and proprioceptive systems are intact, we are perfectly stable with our eyes closed.

The demonic presences--okay, the extraterrestrial sapient fast-thinkers on the other side--try to grab control over the proprioceptive nerves they can sense the layout of on the other side of the grid.

And the proprioceptive feedback of the control let him know that, as it moved, the nozzle was bumping into something.