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What does somatosensory mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biology) Of or pertaining to the perception of sensory stimuli produced by the skin or internal organs
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As missions get longer, adaptation of the somatosensory and motor control systems starts to be important.
Also, two patients had prolonged visual aura, who reported gradual developing of somatosensory and dysphasic symptoms.
Motion sickness is attributed to an incongruence in the sensory input from the vestibular, visual, and somatosensory systems.
As in the olfactory system, somatosensory sensations can be induced by many foods through trigeminal nerve fibers in the tongue and oral cavity.
A similar situation also obtains for somatosensory input from the spinal cord.
Until 1981, Taub carried out somatosensory deafferentation research with monkeys in which sensation is surgically abolished from the upper extremities.

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