Also kinæsthesia. [f. Gr. κῑν-εῖν to move + αἴσθησις sensation ÆSTHESIS.] The sense of muscular effort that accompanies a voluntary motion of the body. So Kinæsthetic a., belonging to kinæsthesis.
1880. Bastian, Brain as an Organ of Mind, xxv. 543. We may … speak of a sense of Movement, as a separate endowment. [Note] Or in one word, Kinæsthesis…. To speak of a ‘Kinæsthetic Centre’ will certainly be found more convenient than to speak of a ‘Sense of Movement Centre.’
1891. V. Horsley, in 19th Cent., June, 859. Bastian coined the term ‘kinæsthesis,’… further, he … postulated the view that such kinæsthesis, or sense of movement, strain, effort, &c., must naturally find its seat or localisation in the so-called motor or Rolandic region of the brain. Ibid., 868. Given that the cortex of the Rolandic region is kinæsthetic, from which element of it does the efferent impulse start?
