Usually means: Transmits sensory information to brain.
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  1. sensory neuron: Vocabulary.com
  2. Sensory neuron: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  3. sensory neuron: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. sensory neuron: Dictionary.com
  5. Sensory neuron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. sensory neuron: Rhymezone
  7. sensory neuron: FreeDictionary.org
  8. sensory neuron: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  10. sensory neuron: Wiktionary

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  1. sensory neuron: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensory neuron: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Neuron, sensory, Sensory neuron: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. sensory neuron: Medical dictionary
  5. Neuron, sensory, Sensory neuron: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sensory neuron)

▸ noun:  (neuroanatomy) A neuron that transmits nerve impulses from a sense organ towards the central nervous system.

Similar:
afferent neuron, nerve cell, neuron, sensory root, neuroreceptor, sensory receptor, somatic nervous system, nerve fiber, nerve, nociceptor, more...

Opposite:
motor neuron, efferent neuron

Types:
mechanoreceptor, thermoreceptor, chemoreceptor, photoreceptor, proprioceptor, nociceptor, more...

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Similar:
afferent neuron, nerve cell, neuron, sensory root, neuroreceptor, sensory receptor, somatic nervous system, nerve fiber, nerve, nociceptor, more...

Opposite:
motor neuron, efferent neuron

Types:
mechanoreceptor, thermoreceptor, chemoreceptor, photoreceptor, proprioceptor, nociceptor, more...



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