sensorium
IPA: sˈɛnsɝiʌm
noun
- (psychology) The entire sensory apparatus of an organism.
- (physiology) The central part of a nervous system that receives and coordinates all stimuli.
- (figurative) The brain or mind in relation to the senses.
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Examples of "sensorium" in Sentences
- These sensitive, impression-receiving ends constitute together what is called the "sensorium" of the body.
- But I did have a period in which for about two weeks, when I actually wasn't taking anything, when something seemed to happen to my sensorium.
- That no one is any longer made accountable, that the kind of being manifested cannot be traced back to a causa prima, that the world is a unity neither as sensorium nor as ‘spirit’, this alone is the great liberation.
- If it is the fact that a certain quantity of phosphorus is expended in the work of the brain, it would be difficult to say how many milligrammes the judge had parted with to excite the network of his "sensorium," and after all, to find out nothing, absolutely nothing.
- The word sensorium is used to express not only the medullary part of the brain, spinal marrow, nerves, organs of sense and muscles, but also at the same time that living principle, or spirit of animation, which resides throughout the body, without being cognizable to our senses except by its effects.
- The word sensorium is used to express not only the medullary part of the brain, spinal marrow, nerves, organs of sense and muscles, but also at the same time that living principle, or spirit of animation, which resides throughout the body, without being cognizable to our senses except by its effects. additional notes contents table of contents
- That exertion or change of the sensorium, which is caused by the appulses of external bodies, either simply subsides, or is succeeded by sensation, or it produces fibrous motions; it is termed irritation, and irritative motions are those contractions of the muscular fibres, or of the organs of sense, that are immediately consequent to this exertion or change of the sensorium.
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