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In addition to the special sense organs (such as the eye and ear) treated in later chapters of this book, in practically all its tissues the body has receptors (sensors) that detect signals from the surroundings or from the body itself and convey them to the central nervous system. All these sensory systems together constitute the somatovisceral sensibility. As illustrated in Figure 2-1, the receptors in the skin, the joints and the skeletal muscles with their tendons are customarily termed the somatosensory system, to distinguish them from the visceral sensory system.
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Schmidt, R.F. (1986). Somatovisceral Sensibility. In: Schmidt, R.F. (eds) Fundamentals of Sensory Physiology. Springer Study Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82598-9_2
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