Definition of "somatosensory" [somatosensory]

• Of or relating to the perception of sensory stimuli from the skin and internal organs: the somatosensory area of the cerebral cortex. (adjective)

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• "The researchers looked, for instance, at a part of the brain called the somatosensory cortex, which contains a kind of map of the body."
• "The experiments explain how the circuitry of a region of the mouse brain called the somatosensory cortex, which processes input from the various systems in the body that respond to the sense of touch, can change."
• "The postcentral gyrus is also known as the somatosensory cortex, or primary sensory area, because it receives sensory input from the body."