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sensori-volitional

sensori-volitional adjective: involved in both sensation and volition; applied to certain nerve fibers that pass to and from the cerebrospinal axis.

Adjective

sensori-volitional (not comparable)

  1. Involved in both sensation and volition; applied to certain nerve fibers that pass to and from the cerebrospinal axis.
    • The centres of these systems are brought into closer structural relation with that of the sensori-volitional system as we ascend the scale of Invertebrated Animals1839, William B. Carpenter, Inaugural Dissertation on the Phsiological Inferences to be Deduced from the Structure of the Nervous System in the Invertebrated Classes of Animals

Origin of sensori-volitional

Blend of sensory + volitional.

Questions about sensori-volitional

What does sensori-volitional mean?
Sensori-volitional means involved in both sensation and volition; applied to certain nerve fibers that pass to and from the cerebrospinal axis.
What part of speech is sensori-volitional?
Sensori-volitional is an adjective.

Words near sensori-volitional in the dictionary

  1. sensor arrays
  2. sensorchip
  3. sensorchips
  4. sensorgram
  5. sensorgrams
  6. sensori-volitional
  7. sensoria
  8. sensorial
  9. sensorialities
  10. sensoriality
  11. sensorially

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