Sensory vs Neuron - What's the difference?
sensory | neuron |
Of the senses or sensation.
(cytology) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
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As nouns the difference between sensory and neuron
is that sensory is sensorium while neuron is a cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.As an adjective sensory
is of the senses or sensation.As a proper noun Neuron is
title of a peer reviewed journal established in 1988 by publisher Cell Press.sensory
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(-)Derived terms
* extrasensory * multisensory * supersensorySee also
* (wikipedia "sensory")neuron
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Alternative forms
* neuroneNoun
(en-noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons , work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
