sensorimotor (sensorimotor)

Sensory and motor; pertaining both to sensation and to motion. Also sensomotor. We have seen good reason to believe that certain areas of the cerebral cortex are especially connected with certain corresponding sensory - motor activities. G. T. Ladd , Physiol. Psychology, p. 537. Sensorimotor nerve, a mixed nerve, composed of both sensory and motor fibers. sensoriolum (sen-sō-rī'ō-lum), n.; pl. sensoriola (-lä). [NL., dim. of LL. sensorium: see sen so rium.] A little sensorium. See second extract under sensorium. sensorium (sen-sō'ri-um), n.; pl. sensoria, sen soriums (-a, -umz). [= F. sensorium = Sp. Pg. It. sensorio, The ringing of the bell, and the rap at the door, struck likewise strong upon the sensorium of my Uncle Toby. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, ii. 10. The noblest and most exalted way of considering. .. infinite space is that of Sir Isaac Newton, who calls it the sensorium of the Godhead. Brutes and men have their sensoriola, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence, and perceive the actions, of a few objects that lie contiguous to them. Add is on, Spectator, No. 565. 2. In biol., the whole sensory apparatus of the body, or physical mechanism of sensation, including the skin and entire nervous system as well as the special sense-organs; all the parts, organs, and ti ues of the body which are capable of receiving or transmitting impre ions from without. In this sense, sensorium is correlated sensualist tritive, and reproductive; and sensorium and motorium are together contrasted, as the "animal organ-system," with the nutritive and reproductive apparatus which constitute the "vegetative organ-system.