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Somatosensory
Meaning: Describing the parts of the nervous system that process body sensations such as touch, pain, temperature and position.
In practice: The primary somatosensory cortex lies in the postcentral gyrus of the parietal lobe.
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Which word means: Describing ascending pathways that carry unconscious position sense from the body up to the hindbrain's coordination centre.
Answer: Spinocerebellar
Which word means: Describing the gyrus immediately behind the Rolandic sulcus, which contains the primary body-sensation cortex.
Answer: Postcentral
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