somesthesia
- noun
- /ˌsoʊməˈθiːziə/
- Specialized
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somestesia
- The patient had impaired somesthesia after the stroke, making it hard to detect touch on her skin.
Examples
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Advanced neurologists may assess somesthesia to evaluate nerve function and response to stimuli.
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Pilots sometimes rely on their somesthesia when instruments are unavailable or malfunctioning.
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Patients with somesthesia can accurately describe their sensations.
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The doctor explained that somesthesia is crucial for body awareness.
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The patient had impaired somesthesia after the stroke, making it hard to detect touch on her skin.
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Advanced neurologists may assess somesthesia to evaluate nerve function and response to stimuli.
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The doctor explained that somesthesia is crucial for body awareness.
Synonyms
The feelings your body gets from skin, muscles, joints, and organs like touch, temperature, pain, and body position
To feel touch, know where your body parts are, and notice feelings inside your body
The ability to feel touch, body position, and feelings inside the body
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
A feeling in your body that tells you about touch or where your arms and legs are
How Sensitive
5
7.0
- Specialized
19
4.6
- Specialized
76
4.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
somesthesia = som + esthesia
The components 'som' and 'esthesia' are not standalone English words and require specialized knowledge of Greek roots to understand the meaning.
Etymology
Somesthesia comes from the Greek parts soma 'body' and aisthesis 'feeling'. So somesthesia means 'body feeling' and refers to our ability to sense touch, pressure, pain, temperature and the position of parts of our body, and you can see the same root in somatic.