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somatosensation (somatosensory)
Sensation related to the body's superficial & deep parts, as distinguished from the special senses of vision, hearing, taste & smell.
Somatosensory sense include:
1) light touch
2) pain
3) temperature
Related
somatosensory testing
Specific
nociception
proprioception; kinesthesia
stereognosis
General
sensation (sense, sensory)
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999