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  • noun biology The sense of heat and cold: the ability of people, and many other organisms, to perceive temperature.

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  • These are the best-known, but there are other senses: nocieption (pain), equilibrioception (balance), proprioception (joint motion), kinesthesia (acceleration), thermoception (temperature), magnetoception (direction), and chronoception (a sense of time.)

    Archive 2009-09-01 Steve Perry 2009

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