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Definition of Sensory neuron

1. Noun. A neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord.

Medical Definition of Sensory neuron

1. 1. A neuron that receives input from sensory cells. 2. Sensory cells such as cutaneous mechanoreceptors and muscle receptors. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensory Neuron

Literary usage of Sensory neuron

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Primary Degenerations of the sensory neuron Systems Certain parasites or their toxins appear to have an elective affinity for the ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"These sensory neuron-paths terminate in the sensory areas (qv) in the ... The typical sensory neuron-path is made up of three or four of these stations. ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"ondary nerve inflammations in distinction from the pathological lesion of the general disease—a primary degeneration of the sensory neuron. ..."

4. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"In describing the second sensory neuron I shall delineate the course of those nerve processes of the cells which we have learned to recognize as the ..."

5. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"In the absence of a target, a sensory neuron has fewer processes, ... In the presence of an appropriate target, the processes of the sensory neuron ..."

6. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"The sensory neuron may also be brought into contact with dendrites of cells whose axons ascend the cord and are connected with centers in the brain. ..."

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