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som·es·thet·ic
variants:
or chiefly British somaesthetic \ -es-ˈthet-ik 
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\Medical Definition of somesthetic
: of, relating to, or concerned with bodily sensations
a somesthetic image of the body created by the brain from sensory inputs of touch, pressure, cold, heat, and pain
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