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Definition of Somatic sensory system
1. Noun. The faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs.
Generic synonyms: Interoception
Terms within: Cutaneous Senses, Sense Of Touch, Skin Senses, Touch, Touch Modality, Proprioception
Specialized synonyms: Skin Perceptiveness, Tactility, Tactual Sensation, Touch Perception, Feeling Of Movement, Kinaesthesia, Kinesthesia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somatic Sensory System
Literary usage of Somatic sensory system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of the Human Body: A Manual of Human Embryology by James Playfair McMurrich (1902)
"... (i) fibers belonging to a general cutaneous or somatic sensory system,
distributed to the skin without being connected with any special sense-organs; ..."
2. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"... injury of the sympathetic nerves associated with these deep viscera may readily
be carried over to the related neurons of the somatic sensory system. ..."
3. An Introduction to neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1918)
"... injury of the sympathetic nerves associated with these deep viscera may readily
be carried over to the related neurons of the somatic sensory system. ..."
4. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1918)
"... injury of the sympathetic nerves associated with these deep viscera may readily
be carried over to the related neurons of the somatic sensory system. ..."
5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"The somatic sensory system is generally the means by which stimuli are received
from the external environment, and gives rise to reflexes which directly ..."
6. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"The somatic sensory system comprises the sensory mechanism of the body whose
peripheral processes end in the skin, the mucocutaneous junctions and the ..."
7. The Development of the Human Body: A Manual of Human Embryology by James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"The fibers of the somatic sensory system converge to a group of cells, situated
in the lateral part of the floor of the fourth ventricle and forming what is ..."
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