Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sensory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sensory \Sen"so*ry\, a. (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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sensory
adj 1: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing
toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
[syn: {centripetal}, {receptive}, {sensory(a)}]
2: involving or derived from the senses; "sensory experience";
"sensory channels" [syn: {sensorial}] [ant: {extrasensory}]
3: relating to or concerned in sensation; "the sensory cortex";
"sensory organs" [syn: {sensational}]
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