CENESTHESIS
\sˈɛnɪsθəsˌɪs], \sˈɛnɪsθəsˌɪs], \s_ˈɛ_n_ɪ_s_θ_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of CENESTHESIS
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By William R. Warner
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Common sensation or sensibility; also the vague sensation of consciousness of bodily existence which is independent of the evidence of the special senses; of Axenfeld, the perception of the existence of the various organs of the body and their relations, attention to which is first aroused when any irregularity or interruption of the sensitive currents which proceed from the nervous centers occurs. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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