Definition of Sensory hair

1. Noun. A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.

Exact synonyms: Vibrissa, Whisker
Generic synonyms: Hair
Derivative terms: Whisker, Whiskery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensory Hair

sensory activity
sensory amblyopia
sensory amusia
sensory aphasia
sensory areas
sensory ataxia
sensory cell
sensory cortex
sensory crossway
sensory decussation of medulla oblongata
sensory deprivation
sensory epilepsy
sensory faculty
sensory ganglion
sensory gating
sensory hair (current term)
sensory image
sensory memory
sensory nerve
sensory neuron
sensory neuronopathy
sensory nuclei
sensory overload
sensory overloads
sensory paralysis
sensory precipitated epilepsy
sensory receptor
sensory receptors
sensory root of ciliary ganglion
sensory root of pterygopalatine ganglion

Literary usage of Sensory hair

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"Sketch of a section of the net of Loewenberg of the Rabbit in its relation to the sensory hair band. From the region of the lower outer angle of the hair ..."

2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"Hertwig. m, Muscle fibres; ,.., sensory cell, with sensory hair; gs, ganglion MIL with the neighbouring contractile elements, either by simple contact or by ..."

3. Chambers' Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1892)
"... opening оГ which the sensory hair» (6) project; c, the nerve passing to taste-bulb ; d, a sensory cell taken from a taste-bulb, showing the sensory hair ..."

4. A Text-book in General Physiology and Anatomy by Walter Hollis Eddy (1907)
"... utriculus, and sacculus in sensory hair cells similar to those of the cochlea. In spite, however, of these similarities of equipment, these hair cells ..."

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