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sensori-volitional

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Blend of sensoryvolitional

Adjective

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sensori-volitional (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Involved in both sensation and volition; applied to certain nerve fibers that pass to and from the cerebrospinal axis.
    • 1839, 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:
      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 Animals

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