sensory

Speech parts

1. sensory - Noun

2. sensory - Adjective

3. sensory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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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Synonyms

receptive sensational centripetal sensorial noggin pate head clear sonic ocular distinct brain visual aware feeling

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Antonyms

extrasensory intellectual cerebral clairvoyant muffled efferent

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Phrases with the word

sensory receptors sensory apparatus sensory fibers sensory loss sensory cell Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis

Examples

sensory neurons Source: Internet

the sensory cortex Source: Internet

sensory organs Source: Internet

sensory experience Source: Internet

sensory channels Source: Internet

Above is a “Zebrafish embryo growing its elaborate sensory nervous system (visualized over 16 hours of development)” captured by Elizabeth Haynes of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and colleagues. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sensorlike sensors measuring temperature sensors used to measure temperature sensory activity sensory alarm sensory aphasia