sensori-volitional
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of sensory volitional
Adjective
[edit]sensori-volitional (not comparable)
- (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
References
[edit]- “sensori-volitional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.