Thesaurus: sensory

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1. a. Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.
2. adj. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
3. adj. involving or derived from the senses
4. adj. relating to or concerned in sensation
5. Same as Sensorium. Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.
6. Same as Sensorium.
7. j:100 a. involving or derived from the senses