sensory : Idioms & Phrases

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hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy

  • noun a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hands and lower legs; progression is slow and individuals affected can have a normal life span; inheritance is X-linked recessive or X-linked dominant
    Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
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sensory activity

  • noun activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result
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sensory aphasia

  • noun aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
    receptive aphasia; Wernicke's aphasia; fluent aphasia; impressive aphasia.
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sensory deprivation

  • noun a form of psychological torture inflicted by depriving the victim of all sensory input
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sensory epilepsy

  • noun focal epilepsy initiated by somatosensory phenomena
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sensory faculty

  • noun the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
    sentiency; sentience; sensation; sense.
    • in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
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sensory fiber

  • noun a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system
    afferent fiber.
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sensory hair

  • noun a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
    whisker; vibrissa.
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sensory nerve

  • noun a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
    afferent nerve; afferent.
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sensory neuron

  • noun a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord
    afferent neuron.
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sensory receptor

  • noun an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
    receptor; sense organ.
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sensory system

  • noun a particular sense
    modality; sense modality.
  • noun the body's system of sense organs
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somatic sensory system

  • noun the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
    somesthesis; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somesthesia; somatosensory system; somaesthesia.
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