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sensory nerve

DEFINITIONS OF: sensory nerve

1

n a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system

Synonyms:
afferent, afferent nerve
Types:
dorsal horn, dorsal root
one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers
fillet, lemniscus
a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
Type of:
nerve, nervus
any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
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