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Medical Term

body image

also: body schema

the individual's concept of the disposition of his limbs and the identity of the different parts of his body. It is a function of the ASSOCIATION AREA of the brain. See also GERSTMANN'S SYNDROME .

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug body-image