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sense organ

A specialized organ or structure, such as the eye, ear, tongue, nose, or skin, where sensory neurons are concentrated and that functions as a receptor. Also called sensor.

sense organ

A sensory receptor; a structure consisting of specialized sensory nerve endings that are capable of reacting to a stimulus (an external or internal change) by generating nerve impulses that pass through afferent nerves to the central nervous system. These impulses may give rise to sensations or reflexly bring about responses in the body.

sense organ

any receptor of external or internal stimuli.

sense organ

A structure especially adapted for the reception of stimuli and the transmission of the relevant information to the brain. The organ of sight is the eye, in which light is transduced into nerve signals in the photoreceptors of the retina.

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Thus, the sense organs, like these new media, pare down and shape

The skin of religion: aesthetic mediations of the sacred

However, the "facts" that one gathers from nature may not always be repeatable by others because our sensory systems may not respond in the same way or our minds fail to process information from our sense organs in the same manner.

Science & the senses: perceptions & deceptions

If perception is understood as a process connecting the sense organs and the perceived thing it means that it cannot be at any time passive; being the result of an encounter, sensations are always understood as act and not passion.

Memory, imaginary and Aristotelian epistemology. On the nature of "apterous fly"

The sense organ formula is: 2+2 pp,1+1 cs, 1+1 dp, 2+2 str, 2+2 vp.

The morphology of the cibarial armature and sensilla of Mansonia titillans, Psorophora cingulata, Coquillettidia arribalzagae, Culex coronator and Limatus durhamii (Diptera: Culicidae)

8) All expenditures for vision products and hearing aids are attributed to diseases of the nervous system and sense organs.

Medical Expenditures for Major Diseases, 1995

1 : awareness (as of noise or heat) or a mental process (as seeing or smelling) resulting from stimulation of a sense organ <I felt a tingling sensation in my leg.

sensation

3) A minute body on the surface of a sea urchin, thought to be a sense organ.

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Observations on the ultrastructure of a cephalic sense organ of the nematode Mermis nigrescens.

Unique two-photoreceptor scanning eye of the nematode Mermis nigrescens

pallida larvae exhibit greater behavioral specificity and neuronal differences within the hood sense organ (Santagata, 2002).

A waterborne behavioral cue for the actinotroch larva of Phoronis pallida (Phoronida) produced by Upogebia pugettensis (Decapoda: Thalassinidea)

If one sense organ is defective, the other senses are more developed.

Chandigarh gets sensory park for visually impaired

26) In other places, Aristotle makes clear that excessive sensible qualities such as a very harsh sound can destroy the sense organ.

Aristotle's direct realism in de anima

Multiple Sensors Ensure Functional Integrity of a Sense Organ Following Localized Damage

Why Do Animals Have So Many Receptors? The Role of Multiple Chemosensors in Animal Perception

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