sensory deprivation | a form of psychological torture inflicted by depriving the victim of all sensory input |
sensory activity | activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result |
psychological warfare war of nerves | the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale |
whisker vibrissa sensory hair | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat |
nerves | control of your emotions, this kind of tension is not good for my nerves |
sense organ sensory receptor receptor | an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
sensory neuron afferent neuron | a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord |
sensory nerve afferent nerve afferent | a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system |
sensory fiber afferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system |
sensory system | the body's system of sense organs |
sense sensation sentience sentiency sensory faculty | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended, in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing |
modality sense modality sensory system | a particular sense |
somesthesia somesthesis somaesthesia somaesthesis somatesthesia somataesthesis somatosensory system somatic sensory system somatic sense | the faculty of bodily perception, sensory systems associated with the body, includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs |
sensory epilepsy | focal epilepsy initiated by somatosensory phenomena |
Wernicke's aphasia fluent aphasia receptive aphasia sensory aphasia impressive aphasia | aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words |
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy | 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 |
nervousness nerves | an uneasy psychological state, he suffered an attack of nerves |
centripetal receptive sensory(a) | of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system, sensory neurons |
sensory sensorial | involving or derived from the senses, sensory experience, sensory channels |
sensational sensory | relating to or concerned in sensation, the sensory cortex, sensory organs |