Kinesthetics and kinesthetic sensations refer to the awareness of body position, movement, and equilibrium by receptors located in muscles, tendons, joints, and the internal ear. The receptors for kinesthetic sensations are special sensory receptors...

(from Latin, proprio: own, recipere: to receive) Proprioception is an animal’s sense of the position of its own body; proprioceptive is the adjective describing this sense. Proprioception is a sense that relies on information coming to the...

n. (also kinesthetic) The ability of a speaker to perceive and monitor her/his own speech by means of sensory stimuli reporting the positions of the organs of speech. Cf. auditory...

The sense of body position in space, achieved through detecting the positions of the MUSCLES, tendons and joints and incorporating this with HAPTIC information and information from the VESTIBULAR...

Proprioception (pronounced /ˌproʊpriːəˈsɛpʃən/ PRO-pree-o-SEP-shun); from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception) is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. Unlike the six exteroceptive senses (sight,...

For about 76 million Americans, proprioceptive disorders cause more than a passing problem. More than 5 million of them visit their doctors each year because occasional or chronic feelings of wooziness, spinning, lack of balance, and fainting are seriously interfering with their ability to...

Proprioception is an appreciation of position, balance, and changes in equilibrium on the part of the musculoskeletal system. The human body is equipped with several independent yet interrelated mechanisms to sense and provide this important information. Specialized nerve endings present in the soft tissues...