Sensory vs. Sensorial

Of the physical senses or sensation.

(neuroanatomy) Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.

Example: ‘sensory neurons’;

The sensorium.

(obsolete) An organ or faculty of sense.

Same as Sensorium.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; - especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system;

Example: ‘sensory neurons’;

involving or derived from the senses;

Example: ‘sensory experience’; ‘sensory channels’;

relating to or concerned in sensation;

Example: ‘the sensory cortex’; ‘sensory organs’;

Of or pertaining to sensation or the senses; sensory.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.

involving or derived from the senses;

Example: ‘sensory experience’; ‘sensory channels’;