sensory neuron

nounBiology.

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

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I loved this image above of an embryonic rat’s sensory neuron by Paula Diaz of Santiago, Chile.
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For instance, the smell of burning bread will trigger sensory neurons to send a message to your brain.
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All the sensory neurons of the same type, about 10 on average, reach out to a single nerve cluster in the next layer of the processing hierarchy.
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