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Proprioception vs Vestibular - What's the difference?

proprioception | vestibular |

As a noun proprioception

is the sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.

As an adjective vestibular is

of or pertaining to a vestibule in a building.

proprioception

Noun

  • The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
  • vestibular

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a vestibule in a building.
  • * 1861 , The English cathedral of the nineteenth century
  • . . . while the outer world was fenced off by the interposed atrium or vestibular cloister.
  • Of or pertaining to a vestibule (body cavity).
  • * 1859 , Sir Erasmus Wilson, William H. Gobrecht, A System of human anatomy, general and special
  • Ampulla of the perpendicular semicircular canal, receiving a fasciculus from the superior branch of the vestibular nerve . . .
  • (dentistry) Of or pertaining to the surface of a tooth that is directed outward toward the vestibule of the mouth, including the buccal and labial surfaces, and opposite the lingual (or oral) surface.
  • Antonyms

    * nonvestibular

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