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[ adjective ] of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
Synonyms Examples "sensory neurons" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)A `` mental_image '' subconsciously impressing us from beneath its language symbols in wakeful thought , or consciously in light sleep , is actually not an image at_all but is comprised of realities , viewed not in the concurrent sensory stream , but within the depths of the fourth_dimension . Hereby , the external object viewed by the eyes remains the thing that is seen , not the retinal image , the purpose of which would be to achieve perceptive cooperation by stirring sympathetic impulses in the other sensory centers , motor tensions , associated word symbols , and consciousness . Consciousness is the factor that provides the progressive continuity to sensory impressions . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Moreover , the dominance in parasympathetic action ( with reciprocal inhibition of the sympathetic ) at the hypothalamic level induces , by its peripheral action , the autonomic symptoms of sleep and , by its action on the cortex , a lessening in the reactivity of the sensory and motor apparatus of the somatic nervous_system . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] involving or derived from the senses
Synonyms Examples "sensory experience" "sensory channels" Used in print (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)No fasciculations or sensory defects were found . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] relating to or concerned in sensation
Synonyms Examples "the sensory cortex" "sensory organs" |
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