proprioceptiveadj.

1906 C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. Syst. iv. 130 Since in this field the stimuli to the receptors are given by the organism itself, their field may be called the proprio-ceptive field.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. v. 123 Proprioceptive organs may affect the consciousness. Thus we can tell how much our knee is bent even with our eyes shut, owing to the joint-organs, or how great a weight we are holding, owing to the muscle-organs.

1965 M. McLuhan Let. 9 Mar. (1987) 321 In addition to the five senses we are including the visceral, the kinesthetic and the proprioceptive.

2001 Men's Exercise July 74 Such lifting requires three-dimensional control, working balance and proprioceptive capacities more than machine work.

1924 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 96 234 Tensile stretch such as gravity in the animal's erect position produces is shown..to excite proprioceptively a reflex contraction of the passively tautened muscle.

1961 L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Lang. i. 15 Articulations which are similar..must require greater precision of execution..in order to keep the resulting speech sounds distinct, both proprioceptively and auditorily.

1991 Descant Summer 158 I chose dance as the primary medium in which to tell this story, because I want it to be sensed physically, proprioceptively, as if foaming out from inside the body.