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IPA transcription: ['sɛnsɚi]
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Adjective
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involving or derived from the senses
“sensory experience”
“sensory channels”
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relating to or concerned in sensation
“the sensory cortex”
“sensory organs”
Adjective
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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.