of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; " sensory neurons"

involving or derived from the senses; " sensory experience"; " sensory channels"

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.

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

Pertaining to the sensorium.

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

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.

Having direct connection with any part of the sensorium.

Something to do with suspended animation, with contra- terrene matter, with teleportation, something about latent extra- sensory powers in everyone, about the ability to break down an object- or a creature or a man- to its component atoms, to reverse- that's the word, reverse- those atoms and send them spinning off into space as contra- terrene matter. – Voyage To Eternity by Milton Lesser

They are sensory, and are the special nerves of smell. – A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell

2. Development of nervous system through use: Importance of stimulus and response- Effect of sensory stimuli- Necessity for motor activity- Development of the association centers- The factors involved in a simple action. – The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts

For example, in the motor region one small area seems connected with movements of the head, one with the arm, one with the leg, one with the face, and another with the organs of speech; likewise in the sensory region, one area is devoted to vision, one to hearing, one to taste and smell, and one to touch, etc. – The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts

For these patients the explanation of the present state of our knowledge as to reflex disturbance of sensory nerves will be of therapeutic value. – Psychotherapy by James J. Walsh