Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Sensory
Sen′so-ry
,Adj.
(Physiol.)
Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation;
as,
. sensory
impulses; – especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent
, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center