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Definition of Sensory hair
1. Noun. A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensory Hair
Literary usage of Sensory hair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"Sketch of a section of the net of Loewenberg of the Rabbit in its relation to
the sensory hair band. From the region of the lower outer angle of the hair ..."
2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"Hertwig. m, Muscle fibres; ,.., sensory cell, with sensory hair; gs, ganglion
MIL with the neighbouring contractile elements, either by simple contact or by ..."
3. Chambers' Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1892)
"... opening оГ which the sensory hair» (6) project; c, the nerve passing to
taste-bulb ; d, a sensory cell taken from a taste-bulb, showing the sensory hair ..."
4. A Text-book in General Physiology and Anatomy by Walter Hollis Eddy (1907)
"... utriculus, and sacculus in sensory hair cells similar to those of the cochlea.
In spite, however, of these similarities of equipment, these hair cells ..."