sensory nerve
81nerve root — Anat. a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root)… …
82sensory area — noun Date: 1896 an area of the cerebral cortex that receives afferent nerve fibers from lower sensory or motor areas …
83sensory nucleus — the nucleus of termination of the afferent (sensory) fibers of a peripheral nerve …
84sensory tract — any bundle of nerve fibers within the central nervous system that conveys sensory information originating from peripheral receptors …
85sensory — adj. Sensory is used with these nouns: ↑awareness, ↑delight, ↑deprivation, ↑experience, ↑nerve, ↑organ, ↑perception, ↑stimulation, ↑stimulus, ↑system …
86sensory receptor — noun an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation • Syn: ↑sense organ, ↑receptor • Ant: ↑effector (for: ↑receptor) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
87nerve net — A network of nerve cells connecting sensory and muscular elements in certain cnidarians, ctenophores, bryozoans, and some other invertebrates …
88nerve growth factor — A peptide (13.26 kD) of 118 amino acids (usually dimeric) with both chemotropic and chemotrophic properties for sympathetic and sensory neurons. Found in a variety of peripheral tissues, NGF attracts neurites to the tissues by chemotropism, where …
89nerve net — a diffuse branching network of nerve cells connecting the sensory and muscular cells of coelenterates and primitive flatworms. [1900 05] * * * …
90nerve growth factor — a protein (see growth factor), consisting of two polypeptide chains, that is required for the development and longevity of some neurones, including those in the sympathetic nervous system and some central nervous system and sensory neurones.… …
