sensory nerve
a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system • Syn: afferent nerve, afferent • Derivationally related forms: afferent (for: afferent) • Hypernyms: nerve, nervus • Hyponyms: dorsal root, dorsal horn, lemniscus, fillet • Part Meronyms: sensory neuron, afferent neuron, sensory fiber, afferent fiber
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