proprioception

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.

/ˌpɹəʊ.pɹi.əʊˈsɛp.ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-proprioception.wav /ˌpɹoʊ.pɹi.oʊˈsɛp.ʃən/

proprioception proprioceptions

From proprioceptor, from Latin proprius (“one's own”) + reception. Coined by British neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington in 1906.

kinesthesia sixth sense

proprioceptional proprioceptive proprioceptor proprioceptory

exproprioception graviproprioception

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