sensori-
(ˈsɛnsərɪ)
used as combining form of sensor or sensory, chiefly in sensori-motor a., applied to nerves which are both sensory and motor; also to reflex actions which arise from stimulation of the organs of sense; also, that relates to activity involving both sensory and motor pathways; sensoriˈneural a., applied to defective hearing that is due to a lesion of the inner ear or auditory nerve. Similarly sensori-digestive, sensori-reflex, sensori-volitional adjs.
| 1891 Century Dict. (citing A. S. Packard), *Sensoridigestive. |
| 1855 Bain Senses & Int. ii. iv. §4 (1864) 263 This is the principle of *sensori-motor, or sensori-reflex actions. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 202 An ordinary sensorimotor nerve such as the sciatic. 1908 W. McDougall Introd. Soc. Psychol. ii. 29 An innate or inherited psycho-physical disposition, which..probably has the form of a compound system of sensori⁓motor arcs. 1932 S. Zuckerman Soc. Life Monkeys & Apes ix. 147 The sensori-motor mechanisms of the primates differ from those of the lower mammals. 1977 Language LIII. 153 Piaget 1952 and Piaget and Inhelder 1971 view representation as an internalization of active sensori-motor imitation. |
| [1960 Laryngoscope LXX. 885 A sudden unilateral or bilateral sensory-neural (perceptive) hearing loss.] 1964 Arch. Otolaryngol. LXXX. 382/1 In this type of slowly progressive *sensorineural hearing loss the only finding is atrophy of the stria vascularis, the functional manifestation of which is hearing loss showing a flat audiometric curve. 1977 Lancet 12 Nov. 1003/2 Perforation of the round-window membrane was found in three children with severe sensorineural deafness. |
| 1855 *Sensori-reflex [see sensori-motor above]. |
| 1857 Dunglison Med. Lex., *Sensori-volitional, a term applied to nervous fibres which..are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. |