Definitions of sensory

1. A term applied by anatomists to those parts of the neural axis with which the sensory nerves are connected.

2. 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.

3. Pertaining to feeling: applied to the nerves which carry sense impressions to the brain.

4. Connected with the sensory or sensation; in his senses, possessed of reason and judgment; sane; out of his senses, destitute of the usual powers of reasoning and judging; insane.

5. Having direct connection with any part of the sensorium.