tactual sensation vs somatic sensory system

somatic sensory system vs tactual sensation

tactual sensation and somatic sensory system both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tactual sensation	Yes	No	No	No
somatic sensory system	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, somatic sensory system is a hypernym of tactual sensation; that is, somatic sensory system is a word with a broader meaning than tactual sensation:

tactual sensation: the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
somatic sensory system: the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

Other hypernyms of tactual sensation include somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis.

tactual sensation (noun)	somatic sensory system (noun)
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin	the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

Difference between tactual sensation and somatic sensory system

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