What is "somatesthesia"

n. awareness of one's own body

1. n. the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes" [syn: somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatic sensation]

2. the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs [syn: somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatatesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense]