sensory system

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Noun	1.	sensory system - a particular sense sense modality, modality sensory faculty, sentiency, sentience, sense, sensation - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" visual modality, visual sense, vision, sight - the ability to see; the visual faculty somatosense - any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing, hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired" gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste - the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste" olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell - the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
	2.	sensory system - the body's system of sense organs body, organic structure, physical structure - the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" system - a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion" sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor - an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation auditory system - the sensory system for hearing visual system - the sensory system for vision vestibular apparatus, vestibular system - organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium first cranial nerve, nervii olfactorii, olfactory nerve - a collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa

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