sensory system

1. is a type of: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
   subtypes:

   • sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense - the ability to see; the visual faculty
   • somatosense - any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain
   • audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
   • gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste - the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
   • olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell - the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
   same as: modality, sense modality
2. is a type of: system - a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
   subtypes:

   • auditory system - the sensory system for hearing
   • visual system - the sensory system for vision
   • vestibular apparatus, vestibular system - organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium
   has:

   • receptor, sense organ, sensory receptor - an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
   • first cranial nerve, nervii olfactorii, olfactory nerve - a collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa
   is a part of: body, organic structure - the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

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