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sensory (adjective), more sensory, most sensory
Connected with the reception and transmission of impressions and the sending of impulses from organs to nerve centers: The medical center conducted a study about sensory stimulations and their effects on the brain.
This entry is located in the following units: -ory (page 4) senso-, sens-, sensi-, sensori-, sent- (page 8)
thalam-, thalamo- +
(Greek > Latin: inner room, bedchamber; so called by Galen because chambers at the base of the brain were thought to supply animal spirits to the optic nerves; thalamus, the middle part of the diencephalon (the area in the center of the brain just above the brain stem that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus) which relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex of the brain)
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ideational apraxia, sensory apraxia (s) (noun); ideational apraxias, sensory apraxias (pl)
A condition in which a person's conceptual process is missing, often because of a lesion in the parietal lobe of the brain which is that part of the cerebral hemisphere that lies beneath the parietal bone or the main side bone of the skull: Susan has ideational apraxia, or sensory apraxia, and is incapable of formulating certain plans for the movements of things because she doesn't know what the proper uses of the objects are.

Working in the kitchen can be dangerous when someone, like Jane, suffers from ideational apraxia and is not sure how to use kitchen equipment correctly.

This entry is located in the following units: idea, ideas (page 2) praxis-, -praxsis, -praxia, -praxic, -praxi- (page 2)
receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia
Aphasia in which there is impairment in the comprehension of spoken and written words, associated with effortless, articulated, but paraphrasic, speech and writing.

Malformed words, substitute words, and neologisms are characteristic.

When severe, and speech is incomprehensible, it is called "jargon aphasia". The patient often appears unaware of his/her deficit.

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sensory amusia
1. Music deafness.
2. The inability to appreciate musical sounds.
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sensory apraxia (s), sensory apraxias (pl) (nouns)
Being unable to perform a movement involving the use of a tool, an instrument, or another object: "The man's sensory apraxia handicapped him because he couldn't determine the size, shape, and purpose of what the doctor meant when he was told to pick up a hammer, the pliers, etc."
This entry is located in the following unit: praxis-, -praxsis, -praxia, -praxic, -praxi- (page 2)
sensory interaction (s) (noun), sensory interactions (pl)
The principle that one stimulus can influence another one: There are sensory interactions that exist with our bodily functions, such as smell plus texture plus taste equals flavor.

When people hold their noses and close their eyes, and have others feed them various foods, their sensory interactions can cause a slice of apple to be indistinguishable from a chunk of raw potato, a piece of steak may taste like cardboard, and without their odors, a cup of cold coffee can be hard to distinguish from a glass of red wine.

Sensory interaction also influences how well people hear, such as those with hearing losses watching a video with captioning have no trouble hearing the words they are seeing, but when the captioning is turned off, they suddenly realize that they need it.

—Compiled from excerpts located in
Psychology, 9th edition; by David G. Myers;
Worth Publishers; New York; 2010; 259-260.
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sensory receptor (s) (noun), sensory receptors (pl)
One of the millions of microscopic structures throughout the body which collects information or awareness from the environment of each individual: Such sensory receptors are found in the skin, the muscles and the joints, in the internal organs, in the walls of blood vessels, and in the special perception organs, such as the eyes, the tongue, the nose, the skin, the ears, etc.

During the neurological assessment, the medical clinician checked the functions of some of the sensory receptors of the stroke patient.

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Unit Test, Sensory (Feeling, Sensation) Words

Sensory Words, Quiz.


Unit Test, Sensory (Feeling, Sensation) Words

Sensory Words, Quiz.


Unit Test, Sensory (Feeling, Sensation) Words

Sensory Words, Quiz.


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Cognition or Processes of Sensory Input Terms
Cognition Theory and Applications by Stephen K. Reed; Thomson Learning, Inc.: 2004.
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