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SENSORY NERVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
Synonyms:
afferent; afferent nerve; sensory nerve
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sensory nerve" is a kind of...):
nerve; nervus (any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body)
Meronyms (parts of "sensory nerve"):
afferent neuron; sensory neuron (a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord)
afferent fiber; sensory fiber (a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensory nerve"):
dorsal horn; dorsal root; posterior horn; posterior root (one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers)
fillet; lemniscus (a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus)
Context examples:
The main sensory nerve of the head and face, and the motor nerve of the muscles used in chewing.
(Fifth cranial nerve, NCI Dictionary)
A specialized tactile sensory nerve ending in the epidermis, characterized by a terminal cuplike expansion of an intraepidermal axon in contact with the base of a single modified keratinocyte.
(Merkel's Corpuscle, NCI Thesaurus)
They then incubated knee sensory nerves isolated from mice in either healthy or osteoarthritis synovial fluid and recorded the activity of these nerves.
(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)
Although the presence of inflammatory chemicals in osteoarthritis synovial fluid has been known since 1959, this is the first evidence that synovial fluid can directly excite sensory nerves and hence is an important contributor to an individual’s experience of pain.
(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals, examined whether synovial fluid produced during osteoarthritis is capable of directly exciting sensory nerves supplying knee joints – those nerves responsible for transmitting pain signals.
(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)
