Somatosensation Definition and Examples - Biology Online Dictionary (original) (raw)

Definition
noun
A somatosensory sensation; the perception of sensory stimuli coming from the skin that involves senses of touch, temperature, body position, and pain.
Supplement
Somatosensation is a collective term for the sensations of touch, temperature, body position, and pain recognized through neural receptors in the skin and certain internal organs. Thus, it includes processes such as”

• mechanoreception
• thermoreception
• proprioception
• nociception

Word origin: _somato_– from soma (body) + sensation
Related form(s): somatosensory (adjective)
See also:

• somatosensory system

Last updated on July 21st, 2021