What's the difference between sensory and sensuous?

Sensory


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Symptomatic improvement was obtained in 14 of the 15 hands, and sensory-evoked response improved in 13 hands.
  • (2) The earliest degenerative changes were seen in sensory and motor terminals at 20-24 h after the lesion.
  • (3) We assumed that the sensory messages received at a given level are transformed by a stochastic process, called Alopex, in a way which maximizes responses in central feature analyzers.
  • (4) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
  • (5) Sensory loss, motor weakness, paraesthesia and a new pain were found as complications in 12, 7, 4 and 6 patients, respectively.
  • (6) Of 533 myelinated sensory fibers, the size range was 2 micron.
  • (7) We have investigated the temporal pattern of appearance, cell lineage, and cytodifferentiation of selected sensory organs (sensilla) of adult Drosophila.
  • (8) These results suggest that, to fully understand how multijoint movement sequences are controlled by the nervous system, sensory mechanisms must be considered in addition to central mechanisms.
  • (9) The peptide selectively inhibits certain postsynaptic cells but not others and thereby allows the sensory neurons to achieve target-specific synaptic actions.
  • (10) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
  • (11) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
  • (12) We conclude that the procedure used in this study is a non-intrusive intervention that is an extension of the current literature pertaining to sensory extinction.
  • (13) Using serial-sectioning techniques for conventional transmission and high-voltage electron microscopy, we characterized the ultrastructural features and synaptic contacts of the sensory cell in tentacles of Hydra.
  • (14) From the area between the papillae sensory endings appearing in sections to be either single, double or triple are described.
  • (15) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
  • (16) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
  • (17) The first spinal nerve and the spinal accessory nerve (XI) have no sensory projections, but the second spinal nerve has typical projections along the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord.
  • (18) After 7 days, various stages of sensory hair degeneration could be observed.
  • (19) It appears that tricyclic antidepressants act in a fashion different from opiate drugs that alter the sensory discriminative component of pain.
  • (20) These connections may provide a pathway for overlap of sensory dermatomes and motor innervation of the neck and upper extremity.

Sensuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.
  • (a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This pair likes to eat well; it is in French restaurants that they find sensuous enjoyment together, perhaps the one place now where there is real collaboration and exchange between them.
  • (2) The movement was at once highly cerebral and perfectly sensuous, saturated with emotional expression and absolutely controlled.
  • (3) Bergé got Yves out of hospital and back to work, helping to set up the label whose three sensuously entwined initials would revolutionise Parisian fashion in the 60s, scandalise the world in the 70s and stamp themselves imperiously across the 80s.
  • (4) One critic described Clark's photographic technique as 'drawing you into the moral void of gorgeously sensuous squalor'.
  • (5) Most brilliant of all, however, were two series from the 1990s (now in Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York), which evoked the four seasons, and the stages of human life, with sensuous colours and characteristically enigmatic writing.
  • (6) With that the remained rests of the still from world categories imaginaried connection get powered (transcendence, sensuousness, settlement by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Schütz for example) to conceive the body as not inferable absolute origin being.
  • (7) The emotionally expressive power of art--not to be confused with the artist's own emotions--has to do with the way sensuous esthetic forms highlight the rhythmic changes of tension and release inherent in ordinary perceptual experience.
  • (8) Her second novel, a great doorstopper of a murder mystery set against the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s,, looks at first sight very different; but it carries forward both her epic ambition and commitment to the sensuous pleasures of reading.
  • (9) Sensuous, anthemic and as spellbinding as ever, Running Up That Hill represented Bush at the peak of her powers.
  • (10) At Dulwich there's an assiduous School-of-Raphael-style battle drawing from 1625 and more attractively, a 1628 canvas, The Arcadian Shepherds , echoing Titian at his most sensuous and poetic.
  • (11) "It seemed to me that Sylvia, being very forthright and loving to play roles, pretended to being more sensuously involved than she was willing to be," says Gordon.
  • (12) Her evocative portraits of Lili and other sensuous women were considered, by some, too outrageous for Denmark, but she rose to fame in Paris.
  • (13) … the audience called us out at least seven times amidst unanimous applause … my future is secured.” Caruso, born in 1873 to a poor family, became the most famous and highest-paid singer of his generation, still revered for the sensuous, lyrical quality of his voice.
  • (14) In those cases in which withdrawal into mutism and only sensuous play has occured by the age of 5 years response to treatment has been minimal.
  • (15) Challenges to belief as well as to disbelief, faith as well as lack of faith, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, and Ordet all take place in a highly sensuous material world where the mysteries of human personality supersede and arguably overwhelm most questions about the supernatural.
  • (16) Similarly, my daughter is an incredibly sensuous little girl, and will sometimes strike poses that are rather erotic, as most little girls do.
  • (17) River Man is easily the album’s finest track: an utterly hypnotic guitar coda played with a kind of deceptively ambling sensuousness, almost throwaway lyrics edged with an oblique mysticism that acts in exactly the way that Kirby states, and then Kirby’s stunning string arrangement that suddenly swells up and levitates spiralling upwards and out, it is Drake at his most supremely spine-tingling effective.
  • (18) The second topic addressed is liposuction of the sensuous triangle which is at the junction of the lateral buttocks, lateral thigh, and posterior thigh.
  • (19) One mode is termed the rational-active, and the other sensuous-receptive.
  • (20) Two new approaches in suction lipectomy of the buttocks region are described: liposuction of the "banana" and liposuction of the "sensuous triangle."