What is the meaning of somesthesia?

noun

• The perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations.
  • usage: "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
  • synonyms: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
• The faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs.
  • synonyms: somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense