sensory neuron

American  

noun

Biology.

1. a nerve cell that conducts impulses from a sense organ to the central nervous system.

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Example Sentences

When the hairs bend, they release an excitatory neurotransmitter at a synapse with a sensory neuron, which then conducts action potentials to the central nervous system.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Disturbance of these dendrites by compressing them or bending them opens gated ion channels in the plasma membrane of the sensory neuron, changing its electrical potential.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

The short reflex involves the direct stimulation of a postganglionic fiber by the sensory neuron, whereas the long reflex involves integration in the spinal cord or brain.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013