American English pronunciation

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IPA transcription: ['sɛnsɚi]

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Adjective

  • involving or derived from the senses

    “sensory experience”

    “sensory channels”

  • relating to or concerned in sensation

    “the sensory cortex”

    “sensory organs”

Adjective

  • of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system

    “sensory neurons”

Usage examples

  • Objective sensory symptoms are generally minimal in regards to touch, pain, heat, and cold.
  • They bear two types of sensory ending, known as annulospiral and flower-spray endings.
  • Together, these areas function as a sensory-motor loop for syllable information coding.
  • By providing similar sensory signals as the model flower, it can lure its pollinators.
  • Thalamic interneurons process sensory information and signal different regions of the thalamic nuclei.
  • The scientific consensus does not view extrasensory perception as a real phenomenon.
  • But even within a given sensory system different dimensions may be treated separately.
  • In the head and neck, cranial nerves carry somatosensory data.
  • With each segment, there is a pair of sensory and motor nerves.
  • The olfactory epithelium contains olfactory sensory neurons, whose axons innervate the olfactory bulb.