n
(physiology) A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
adj
Alternative form of asthenopic [Having, or pertaining to, asthenopia.]
n
(biology) The brain’s reception of signals from the body.
n
The input of sensory information from a body part to the brain
adj
Relating to anatomy and surgery.
adj
Related to both the perception of sound and the production of movement.
n
The action of an autoreceptor
adj
Relating to autotopagnosia
n
Alternative form of baroreflex [(physiology) Any reflex that results from stimulation of a baroreceptor]
n
The influence of a stimulus on the excitability or irritability of heart muscle
n
(anatomy) A sensory receptor that sends pleasurable or beneficial signals.
adj
Pertaining to the sensory abilities of a biological organism.
adj
Of or pertaining to bradyons.
adj
Of or relating to bradytely.
adv
In a cardioprotective manner
adj
(of a sense organ) able to respond to a chemical stimulus
n
the ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus
n
a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor
n
Any chemosensitive receptor
adj
of, or relating to a chemosensor, or to the perception of chemical signals by the senses; especially of the perception of taste and smell
adj
Relating to the perception of chemical sensory stimuli
adj
Describing the stretch receptors in arthropods that detect the position of body segments or appendages
n
Alternative form of chronaxie [The minimum time over which an electric current must be applied in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell.]
n
Alternative form of chronaxie [The minimum time over which an electric current must be applied in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell.]
n
A visual representation of the connections within the human brain, and often specifically of the connectome as a whole.
adj
Relating to decathexis.
adj
(informal) desmodromic
adj
(physiology) Relating to the conduction of electricity through nerves
adj
electroneural and physiological
v
To cause, or to undergo emmetropization
n
A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory.
n
(physiology) The reception of sensory stimuli from hollow internal organs.
adj
(physiology) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances.
adj
(biochemistry) Relating to the ability to sense one's environment
adj
Of or relating to a class of neurons that detect gentle touches and light vibrations.
adj
Of or pertaining to epistaxis.
n
stimulation as a result of external movement
adj
Relating to exproprioception
n
The perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body
adj
(anatomy) That responds to external stimuli
n
(anatomy) A sense organ or nerve receptor that responds to external stimuli
n
(physiology) A receptor that responds to stimuli from outside the body
adj
Relating to sensorimotor activity outside of the body
n
Synonym of hand-eye coordination
n
The organ responsible for graviperception
n
(biology) proprioception via the sensing of the effects of gravity (weight) on body parts
adj
(biology) Relating to graviproprioception
adj
(medicine) Of or pertaining to hemodynamics, the circulation of blood in the body.
adj
(neuroscience) Having to do with or being a part of the correspondent region in the other brain hemisphere.
adj
Relating to hygrosensation
adj
Synonym of hypermetropic
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting, hypersynchrony.
adj
Alternative form of idiothetic [Relating to the use of internal cues when navigating a maze etc.]
n
Any searching strategy in which there is sparse information, especially a strategy used by biological organisms to zigzag towards the source of an odour based on sporadic clues.
n
Any of the senses that detect conditions within the body.
adj
Of or pertaining to interoception or an interoceptor.
n
A sensory receptor that detects stimulus within the body.
adj
Between senses (means of perception).
adj
Pertaining to, or making use of, isohypses.
adj
Relating to isometropia
n
Either of a number of receptors that have the same, or similar function
n
An oval receptor cell having synaptic contacts with somatosensory afferents, found in the skin of vertebrates and associated with the sense of light touch discrimination of shapes and textures.
n
(physiology) A reflex triggered by stimulation of metaboreceptors. This reflex is triggered during exercise and increases blood flow and ventilation. It is part of the ergoreflex (the exercise pressor reflex).
adv
(biology) In terms of the motor faculties.
adj
(biology) Relating to organs of motion.
adj
Synonym of sensorimotor
n
A motor impulse sent efferently down a nerve towards a muscle
n
muscular activity or massage
adj
Relating to the response of a plant to a stimulus that does not depend on the location of the stimulus.
n
Synonym of neural network
adj
(physics) Describing any electronic device that interfaces with, (or was otherwise designed for use with), nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
adj
Alternative form of neuroelectrophysiological [neuroelectric and physiological]
adj
neuroelectric and physiological
n
Movement between the braincase and palate at the basipterygopterygoid joint.
n
(anatomy, physiology) The study of the interaction of the nervous system with mechanical activity of the body
adj
Relating to neural responses to stimulation of the ear by sound
adj
Involving neuropsychological measurements
adj
Synonym of neurosensory
adj
neurological and visual
adj
Relating to nucleokinesis.
adj
Relating to olfactronics.
n
The movement of the eye in response to an external stimulus
adj
Of or pertaining to movement of the eyes
adj
Relating to oral senses (e.g., taste, oral kinesthetic sense), and especially the innervation that provides for them.
adj
(neurology) orthodromic
adj
Relating to orthokeratology.
adj
Relating to osmosensing.
adj
(medicine) Pertaining to paraballism.
n
Myoclonus triggered by light impinging on the eye.
n
(chiefly attributive) Exposure of the eye to bright light and measurement of the time taken for vision to return, used in ocular diagnosis
adj
Relating to the skin's ability to feel a pneumatic pulse
adj
Synonym of pedotactile
adj
Alternative form of postreceptor [(physiology) Following interaction with a receptor]
n
(anatomy) A nerve ending that functions as a sensory receptor in muscles, tendons, joints and the inner ear; they respond to movement and position
adj
Relating to proprioception or to a proprioceptor
n
Alternative form of proprioceptor [(anatomy) A nerve ending that functions as a sensory receptor in muscles, tendons, joints and the inner ear; they respond to movement and position]
adj
(physiology) Describing cells or other structures that will develop into sensory ones
adj
Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location.
n
(biology) A nerve ending or similar group of specialist cells that are sensitive to light.
adj
Alternative form of psychomotor [Of or pertaining to the function of muscles under the control of the mind]
adj
Relating to the mental processing of information received via the senses.
n
(biology) Any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli.
adj
Relating to receptors.
adj
(anatomy, biology) Relating to the architectonics of receptors
adj
(biology) Relating to a receptor
n
(neurophysiology) The outcome carried out by the motor effector as a result of the reflex arc.
n
The synaptic ending of the sensory nervous system which are encapsulated and respond to stretch and torque. These responses are propagated back to dorsal root ganglia in the form of an action potential.
adj
Relating to saccade; thus (often, more specifically):
adj
Of or relating to a sensillum.
n
A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
adv
With regard to the senses.
adj
(physiology) Relating to sensory perception
adj
Describing the sensory activity of a specific type of impulse
adj
Describing a projection of an image onto a part of the brain that preserves the spatial relations of the image as received by the senses
n
(physiology) The central part of a nervous system that receives and coordinates all stimuli.
n
(biology, dated) The sensorium.
n
A sensory nerve ending that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism.
adj
Relating to the sensation of turning
n
somatosensory representation
adj
Relating to the reception of sensory stimuli within the brain
n
Any sensor that responds to external stimuli
adj
Of or related to somatosensory perception.
adj
somatosensory and sensorimotor
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to the perception of sensory stimuli produced by the skin or internal organs
n
The correspondence between the position of a receptor in part of the body and the corresponding area of the cerebral cortex that is activated by it.
n
A sense organ, in some invertebrates, that reacts to changes in spatial equilibration and orientation
n
(physiology, psychology, medicine) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response, or that affects any of the sensory apparatuses.
adj
Of or relating to tachytely.
adj
Relating to the detection and reception of stimuli distant from the body (typically, the senses of hearing, sight and smell).
n
A type of electrical activity in the brain: brain waves with a frequency of 4-8 hertz.
adj
Affecting or relating to three senses.
n
A specialist that studies blindness.
adv
In a urologic manner; with respect to urology
adv
In a venographic manner
adj
Synonym of viscerosensory
adj
Alternative form of visuospatial [Of or pertaining to the visual perception of spatial relationships.]
adj
Relating to visual cognition
adj
Relating to the senses of vision and touch
adj
Relating to vision and kinesthesia.
adj
Relating to vision and proprioception
adj
Relating to the sensing of visual impulses.
adj
Relating to perception by vision and touch.
adj
Synonym of retinotopic
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