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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

receptive visual feeling sensational centripetal sensual sensuous gustatory sensorial tactile auditory noggin pate head clear
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Antonyms

extrasensory intellectual cerebral clairvoyant muffled efferent
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Phrases with the word

Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis Wartenberg's migratory sensory neuropathy sensory fibers sensory receptors sensory cell sensory apparatus

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