| 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 |
whisker
vibrissa
sensory hair | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat |
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 |
| aphasia | inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion |
auditory aphasia
acoustic aphasia
word deafness | an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss |
conduction aphasia
associative aphasia | aphasia in which the lesion is assumed to be in the association tracts connecting the various language centers in the brain, patient's have difficulty repeating a sentence just heard |
global aphasia
total aphasia | loss of all ability to communicate |
motor aphasia
Broca's aphasia
ataxic aphasia
expressive aphasia
nonfluent aphasia | aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired |
nominal aphasia
anomic aphasia
anomia
amnesic aphasia
amnestic aphasia | inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects |
| transcortical aphasia | a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex |
visual aphasia
alexia
word blindness | inability to perceive written words |
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 |
| receptive | able to absorb liquid (not repellent), the paper is ink-receptive |
centripetal
receptive
sensory(a) | of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system, sensory neurons |
| receptive | open to arguments, ideas, or change, receptive to reason and the logic of facts |
receptive
open | ready or willing to receive favorably, receptive to the proposals |
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 |