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Sensory nerve   /sˈɛnsəri nərv/   Listen
Sensory nerve

noun
1.
A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system.  Synonyms: afferent, afferent nerve.





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... elastic membrane, just beneath the ectoderm, is a plexus or cobweb of nervous cells and fibrils. As in every nervous system, three elements are here to be found. 1. An afferent or sensory nerve-fibril, which under adequate stimulus is set in vibration by some cell of the epidermis or ectoderm, which is therefore called a sensory cell. 2. A central or ganglion cell, which receives the sensory impulse, translates it into consciousness, and ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler
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Words linked to "Sensory nerve" :   nerve, nervus, lemniscus, sensory neuron, afferent nerve, afferent, sensory fiber, afferent fiber, dorsal horn, afferent neuron, fillet, dorsal root


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