noun
the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
• Hypernyms: ↑interoception
• Hyponyms:
↑kinesthesis, ↑kinaesthesis, ↑kinesthesia, ↑kinaesthesia, ↑kinesthetics, ↑muscle sense, ↑sense of movement, ↑kinanesthesia, ↑equilibrium, ↑labyrinthine sense, ↑vestibular sense, ↑sense of balance, ↑sense of equilibrium
• Part Holonyms:
↑somesthesia, ↑somesthesis, ↑somaesthesia, ↑somaesthesis, ↑somatesthesia, ↑somataesthesis, ↑somatosensory system, ↑somatic sensory system, ↑somatic sense
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\\ˌprōprēəˈsepshən\ noun (-s) : the reception of stimuli produced within the organism — see proprioceptor
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/proh'pree euh sep"sheuhn/, n. Physiol.
perception governed by proprioceptors, as awareness of the position of one's body.
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propriocepˈtion noun
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Main Entry: ↑proprioceptive
Useful english dictionary. 2012.