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sensori-volitional en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of sensory + volitional.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Involved in both sensation and volition; applied to certain nerve fibers that pass to and from the cerebrospinal axis.
    • The centres of these systems are brought into closer structural relation with that of the sensori-volitional system as we ascend the scale of Invertebrated Animals 1839, William B. Carpenter, Inaugural Dissertation on the Phsiological Inferences to be Deduced from the Structure of the Nervous System in the Invertebrated Classes of Animals: