WordNet
n. a particular sense [syn: modality, sense modality]
the body's system of sense organs
Wikipedia
The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information. A sensory system consists of sensory receptors, neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in sensory perception. Commonly recognized sensory systems are those for vision, auditory (hearing), somatic sensation (touch), gustatory (taste), olfaction (smell) and vestibular (balance/movement). In short, senses are transducers from the physical world to the realm of the mind where we interpret the information, creating our perception of the world around us.
The receptive field is the specific part of the world to which a receptor organ and receptor cells respond. For instance, the part of the world an eye can see, is its receptive field; the light that each rod or cone can see, is its receptive field. Receptive fields have been identified for the visual system, auditory system and somatosensory system, so far.
Usage examples of "sensory system".
His sensory system extended from the outer membrane of philosopher cells to the bioactive walls of this chamber, where glands synthesized the charismata of his moods.
The sounds were not attended to by the body to whose sensory system Soames was linked.
Your brain won't be able to tell that they're not coming in via the sensory system.
Now she could see the tech again, and one gloved hand reaching up into the tangle of fused metal and wires that had been her lower deck sensory system.
The material laminated between the outer walls interfered with the Sime sensory system sickeningly, and the interior bars and pockets forced the tentacles into extension and immobilized them painfully.
Deep in an unknown labyrinth with his companions, wriggling along a fault with millions of tons of rock inches above his spine, exertion throbbing in his temples, he had only to close his eyes (in order to be rid of the overriding impulse of the sensory system to pour energy out through the eyes, even in total darkness) and he could reach out with his proximity sense and tell, with unverifiable assurance, in which direction lay empty space, and in which heavy rock.
Under the operator's delicate touch, enhanced by a computer sensory system, the fingers could dexterously thread a small needle and tat lace or, if the occasion demanded, crush rock.
Suppose this CORE was smart enough to have cobbled together a sensory system that could see through the chaff?
Since she was unconscious and not asleep, her sensory system was open to exterior stimulation.
And because of this, they possessed a unique, interlocking sensory system.
It has affinity for living tissues of the sensory system, and it produces in them pain beyond any—.
No merely human sensory system could supply its voracious appetite for information.