somesthetic

adjective

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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