sensory nerve
101sensory — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Neurological] Syn. sensible, reLating to sensation, reLating to the senses, neural, conscious, afferent, receptive, sensatory, acoustic, auditory, aural, auricular, sonic, phonic, audio visual, visual, ocular, optic,… …
102nerve — [16] Latin nervus meant ‘sinew, bowstring’. It and its Greek relative neuron (source of English neural) may belong to a wider family of words that includes Latin nēre ‘spin’ (a relative of English needle) and possibly also English narrow, perhaps …
103sensory — /ˈsɛnsəri / (say sensuhree) adjective 1. relating to sensation. 2. Physiology denoting a structure that conveys an impulse which results or tends to result in sensation, as a nerve. Also, sensorial /sɛnˈsɔriəl/ (say sen sawreeuhl) …
104nerve — [16] Latin nervus meant ‘sinew, bowstring’. It and its Greek relative neuron (source of English neural) may belong to a wider family of words that includes Latin nēre ‘spin’ (a relative of English needle) and possibly also English narrow, perhaps …
105sensory hair — noun a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat • Syn: ↑whisker, ↑vibrissa • Derivationally related forms: ↑whiskery (for: ↑whisker), ↑whisker (for …
106sensory root. — See under nerve root …
107Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy — For the gene HSN2, see HSN2. Not to be confused with Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy. Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy Classification and external resources ICD 9 356.2 OMIM …
108auditory nerve — noun a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea • Syn: ↑acoustic nerve, ↑vestibulocochlear nerve, ↑nervus vestibulocochlearis, ↑eighth cranial nerve • Hypernyms: ↑cranial nerve …
109Law of specific nerve energies — The law of specific nerve energies, first proposed by Johannes Peter Müller in 1835, is that the nature of perception is defined by the pathway over which the sensory information is carried. Hence, the origin of the sensation is not important.… …
110Posterior root of spinal nerve — The formation of the spinal nerve from the dorsal and ventral roots Latin radix posterior Gray s …
