SENSORY NEURON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensory neuron mean? 

• SENSORY NEURON (noun)
  The noun SENSORY NEURON has 1 sense:

1. a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord

  Familiarity information: SENSORY NEURON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSORY NEURON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

afferent neuron; sensory neuron

Hypernyms ("sensory neuron" is a kind of...):

nerve cell; neuron (a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses)

Holonyms ("sensory neuron" is a part of...):

afferent; afferent nerve; sensory nerve (a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system)

 Context examples 

It results from functional disturbances of sensory neurons.

(Paresthesia, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists focused on a class of sensory neurons that express a gene called Calca, as these neurons have a long history in pain research.

(Study uncovers specialized mouse neurons that play a unique role in pain, National Institutes of Health)

This allele, which encodes high affinity nerve growth factor receptor protein, is involved in cellular differentiation, signal transduction and may play a role in specifying sensory neuron subtypes.

(NTRK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the maintenance of sympathetic and sensory neurons.

(NGF Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by functional disturbances of sensory neurons resulting in abnormal cutaneous sensations of tingling, numbness, pressure, cold, and warmth that are experienced in the absence of a stimulus.

(Paresthesia, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

When stretching occurs, the sensory neuron from the muscle spindle signals the motor neurons located within the ventral horn of the spinal cord.

(Muscle Spindle, NCI Thesaurus)

In the brain BDNF has a trophic action on retinal, cholinergic, and dopaminergic neurons, and in the peripheral nervous system it acts on both motor and sensory neurons.

(Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This protein plays a role in both the maintenance and differentiation of sympathetic and sensory neurons.

(Beta-Nerve Growth Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

It exerts trophic action on retinal, cholinergic, and dopaminergic neurons in the brain and on motor and sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system.

(Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

The proprioceptive sensory neuron of a Golgi tendon organ, projects to the motor neurons located within the ventral horn of the spinal cord, where the inhibition occurs.

(Golgi Tendon Organ, NCI Thesaurus)