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Sensory

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.

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Afferent 84% connected

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the ext…

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Afferent 84% connected

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the ext…

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Sensation 74% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Sensation 74% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Aesthesis 66% connected

Sensuous perception.

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Centripetal 92% connected

Tending, or causing, to approach the center.

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Receptive 92% connected

Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.

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Sensational 92% connected

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

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Sensorial 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.

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