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sensitory

sensitory is the dated form of sensory.

Meaning of sensory

Adjective

sensory (not comparable)

  1. Of the physical senses or sensation.
    • The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But every ſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow.1665, Thomas Bartholin, chapter VI, in anonymous translator, Bartholinus Anatomy, London: Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole, translation of Anatomia (in New Latin), page 142
  2. Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.
    • sensory neurons
    Synonyms:
    afferent

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Questions about sensitory

What is sensitory the dated form of?
Sensitory is the dated form of sensory.

Words near sensitory in the dictionary

  1. sensitometers
  2. sensitometric
  3. sensitometrically
  4. sensitometries
  5. sensitometry
  6. sensitory
  7. sensive
  8. sensivity
  9. Sensmier
  10. senso lato
  11. senso stricto

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