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proprioceptive

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Adj — (physiology) Relating to the body's sense of its own position and movement.

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Etymology

Coined by the English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, first spelled proprio-ceptive, from proprius plus a clipped form of receptive.

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