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sensory neuron

NOUN
nerve cell
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A free nerve ending, as its name implies, is an unencapsulated dendrite of a sensory neuron.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

For example, the knee reflex that a doctor tests during a routine physical is controlled by a single synapse between a sensory neuron and a motor neuron.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

If a sensory neuron projects directly to the ganglionic neuron and causes it to activate the effector target, then the CNS is not involved.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

A simple case is a reflex caused by a synapse between a dorsal sensory neuron axon and a motor neuron in the ventral horn.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

However, generator potentials can initiate action potentials in the sensory neuron axon, and postsynaptic potentials can initiate an action potential in the axon of other neurons.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013