29 January 2016

proprioception

[proh-pree-uh-sep-shuh n]

noun, Physiology.

1. perception governed by proprioceptors, as awareness of the position of one’s body. (Note that a proprioceptor is a receptor located in subcutaneous tissues, as muscles, tendons, and joints, that responds to stimuli produced within the body).

Origin of proprioception

1905-1910; proprio- + (re)ception

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Word Origin and History for proprioception

n. 1906, from proprioceptor, from Latin proprius “own” (see proper) + reception. Coined by English neurophysiologist C.S. Sherrington (1857-1952). Related: Proprioceptive; proprioceptor.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

proprioception in Medicine

proprioception pro·pri·o·cep·tion (prō’prē-ō-sěp’shən)

n. The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself.

proprioception in Science

The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself. In humans, these stimuli are detected by nerves within the body itself, as well as by the semicircular canals of the inner ear.

Today’s quote

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

– Orson Scott Card

On this day

29 January 1979 – 16 year old, Brenda Spencer shoots two men dead and wounds nine children at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. She allegedly claimed that she did it because it was a Monday and she didn’t like Mondays. She was sentenced to 25 years jail. The Boomtown Rats released a song about the incident, entitled ‘I Don’t Like Mondays‘.