(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.
Sentience
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sentiency
Example Sentences:
(1) For males, positive correlations were obtained between Abstract and Achievement, Endurance and Sentience; while negative correlations were obtained between Abstract and Harmavoidance and Order, respectively.
(2) At this point, I merely refer you to Mary Anne Warren's chapter on Abortion and Human Rights in Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things , wherein she clearly explains the biological and moral justifications to not grant sentience, and therefore equal moral status, to first- and early second-trimester foetuses.
(3) The correlates were measured by Perceived Field Motion, Human Field Rhythms, Creativity, Sentience, Fast Tempo, and Waking Periods.
(4) He listed (1) a self-agency, representing the recognition of one's volition and capacity to act; (2) a sense of self-coherence, representing a sentience of what remains constant within one's own purveyance; (3) a sense of self-affectivity, representing the recognition of feelings, that is, the subjective aspect of affective living; and (4) a sense of self-history, representing a registration of continuity and a recognition of what "goes on being."
(5) Very tentative observations are made concerning the implications of neuromaturational events for the development of fetal sentience and fetal pain.
(6) He sees no solid basis for grounding the scope of moral obligations on simple sentience, membership in the human species, or technical differentia such as viability, and concludes that medical ethics still suffers from the lack of an adequate theory on which to base a right to life.
(7) Our thinking about sentience is not advanced a great deal, as we as yet have no good way of talking about it at the brainstem level.
(8) We already interact with things that have only the semblance of sentience.
(9) If, however, the universe is actually the product of a rational Mind and evolution is simply the search engine that in leading to sentience and consciousness allows us to discover the fundamental architecture of the universe – a point many mathematicians intuitively sense when they speak of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics – then things not only start to make much better sense, but they are also much more interesting.
(10) Finally, it is argued that, since the capacities for sentience, a minimal condition for personhood, are never realized by an anencephalic, the entity has never been alive as a person.
(11) However, since sentience is a characteristic of other animals as well as man, logically the ethics applied to mankind must be extended to encompass all animals.
(12) But no triumph in complicated games can bring us closer to genuinely autonomous and conscious computers: the test for true sentience would be a program bewildered and frightened by the knowledge of mortality.
(13) Host factors relevant to the healing and knowing of sickness must be elucidated so that medicine may rediscover the sentience of its patients.
(14) However, they lack the physiological development necessary to sustain a capacity for sentience.
(15) Jake Schreier, director of Robot & Frank: 'We already interact with things that have only the semblance of sentience.'
(16) Of course, if we’re talking ambition, Tony Stark’s Jarvis ended up gaining sentience before being incarnated into a body built around the cosmic energy of the soul gem and defeating the evil machine intelligence Ultron.
(17) The relationship between the one-time sentience of their meal and being sated by it disturbs them.
(18) Elsewhere, Ian Beale's journey from mute vagrancy to spluttering sentience continues apace.
(19) But the more important point is that their lack of a capacity for sentience makes them inappropriate candidates for the ascription of moral rights.
(20) Whether given life by Serkis himself or a few strokes of the post-production animator's virtual paintbrush (the argument remains unresolved), here was a creature whose sentience came across as instantly creepy – even demonic – the moment you looked into its eyes.