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Sensory  adj.  (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.






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"Sensory" Quotes from Famous Books



... Structure. Microscopic Structure. The Neurone. The Nervous Impulse. The Synapse. Properties of Nervous Tissue —Impressibility, Conductivity, Modifiability. Pathways Used in Study—Sensory, Motor, Association. Study is a Process of Making ...
— How to Use Your Mind • Harry D. Kitson

... "Whether the principal mental symptoms can be entirely referred," he says, "to the organic changes in certain frontal (and parietal) convolutions—the motor to those of the so-called cortical motor zone—the sensory to those of certain portions of the temporo-sphenoidal and parietal—must remain a matter of question," while in regard to the convulsive attacks, Dr. Mickle has in some cases been "unable to trace a harmony between these and the results of physiological experiment; in other ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... and responsive at every point of his realm,—that all-pervading, all-embracing, all-sustaining Life of Love, in which we live and move. As naught that can give pleasure or pain can touch the human body without the sensory nerves carrying the message of its impact to the brain centres, so does every vibration in the universe, which is His body, touch the consciousness of God, and draw thence responsive action. Nerve cells, nerve threads, and muscular fibres ...
— The Life Radiant • Lilian Whiting



Words linked to "Sensory" :   sensational, afferent, sensory activity, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, sensory hair, sensorial, sensory nerve, sensory faculty, sensory system, centripetal, extrasensory, sensory receptor, somatic sensory system, receptive, sensation, sensory epilepsy



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