sense organ

noun

1. a specialized bodily structure that receives or is sensitive to internal or external stimuli; receptor.

sense organ

noun

1. a structure in animals that is specialized for receiving external or internal stimuli and transmitting them in the form of nervous impulses to the brain

sense organ

1. In animals, an organ or part that is sensitive to a stimulus, as of sound, touch, or light. Sense organs include the eye, ear, and nose, as well as the taste buds on the tongue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sense organ¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

"It seems inevitable that differences in female responses are often due to female mechanisms of analyses of signals that are the result of properties of her sense organs and her nervous system."

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Spiders don't have ears, but sense sound in vibrations using specialized sense organs in their eight legs.

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Unlike hearing, seeing, or tasting, the sense of time is not mediated by a specific sense organ but rather is "embodied" in a more all-encompassing way.

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He encounters thought control, vampiric personality absorption, music that kills, colors beyond the usual spectrum, various new sense organs, the truth about Nightspore and Krag and, above all, the meaning and necessity of pain.

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Let’s use our computers to model how the universe might look to beings who evolved in different environments and might have very different sense organs and neural systems.

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