Citations:neurosensiferous

English citations of neurosensiferous

1. Pertaining to, or forming, both nerves and sense organs.
   • 1888, “Fresh-water Polypes”, in T. H. Huxley, H. N. Martin, extended and edited by G. B. Howes and D. H. Scott, A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology, Revised edition, London: Macmillan and Co., page 346:

     Continuity has been traced between these cells or cnidoblasts and certain small nerve-cells sparsely diffused in the deeper layer of the ectoderm; the whole constituting an elementary neuro-sensiferous apparatus, through the agency of which control of at least the cnidoblasts and their contained urticating capsules is exercised.

   • 1928, John MacKay, Trodden gold: merchandise of silk, and paper and wood and the glory of the arat-tree‎^[1], page 47:

     The voice however was toneless, dead. Emotional feeling as we know is largely a parasitic phenomenon. If I may be allowed to use medical terminology, the effect now produced on me was one of temporary neurosensiferous degeneration. I went limp.