An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation.
1Two important consequences ordinarily follow the stimulation of a sense organ.
2According to Prof. Ernst Haeckel, the skin is the first and oldest sense organ.
3Observation is an outcome, a consequence, of the interaction of sense organ and subject matter.
4We have a special sense organ for appreciating light, whereas we have none for electricity.
5According to the Vedic Sages the mind in its ordinary state is only another sense organ.
6It predicts sense organ movements in animals and can prescribe sensor motion for robots to enhance performance.
7They were a brainy people, and were almost superhumanly perceptive in every sense organ and in every nerve.
8If the nerve which connects the sense organ with the brain be severed, the sensation does not arise.
9Neurototal merely furnished man with a new sense organ and a new means of communication with the world about him.
10On the physical side there is need for the adaptation of the sense organ and the body to the situation.
11The nerve stimulus itself has a cause; it ordinarily arises directly or indirectly from the stimulation of a sense organ.
12Generally speaking, we may say that every nerve has one end in a sense organ and the other in a muscle.
13Suppose that we have but one sense organ, the eye, then the whole universe should consist of colours and of colours only.
14In other words, the nervous current need not start at a sense organ, but may start in the brain and still produce movement.
15But no matter how large or how small, we may be sure that movements always occur on the excitation of a sense organ.
16The forest floor is strewn with its thread, forming a messy but effective sense organ that alerts it to the movements of its prey.
Translations for sense organ