NOUN | cognition | sensory system, modality, sense modality | a particular sense |
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body | sensory system | the body's system of sense organs |
Meaning | A particular sense. | |
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Synonyms | modality, sense modality | |
Narrower | hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality | The ability to hear |
sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality | The ability to see | |
smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality | The faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | |
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 | |
taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality | The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | |
Broader | sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty | The faculty through which the external world is apprehended |
Meaning | The body's system of sense organs. | |
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Part of | body, organic structure | The entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) |
Parts | olfactory nerve, nervii olfactorii, first cranial nerve | A collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa |
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 | |
Narrower | auditory system | The sensory system for hearing |
vestibular apparatus, vestibular system | organs mediating the labyrinthine sense | |
visual system | The sensory system for vision | |
Broader | system | A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts |
Spanish | sistema sensorial | |
Catalan | sistema sensorial |
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