sensorium

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That exertion or change of the sensorium, which is caused by the appulses of external bodies, either simply subsides, or is succeeded by sensation, or it produces fibrous motions; it is termed irritation, and irritative motions are those contractions of the muscular fibres, or of the organs of sense, that are immediately consequent to this exertion or change of the sensorium 2.

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  1. noun The part of the brain that receives and coordinates all the stimuli conveyed to various sensory centers.
  2. noun The entire sensory system of the body.

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  • His parallel sensorium was coming from a twinning link to the solido of Howard Liang, a Starflyer agent who had been part of the disinformation mission. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
  • The center of his expanded sensorium was a gray sheet.
  • The state of the sensorium is a far more basic determinant of behavior than cultural patterns of reward and punishment because we receive these very reinforcements themselves through the media of the senses. —  BEN BOVA
  • Now imagine that each piece of data that comes into our sensorium is like rain, falling onto the plain, with the location decided generally by topic.
  • I mean, everything in my sensorium, and everything music can evoke. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
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  1. Late Latin sēnsōrium, organ of sensation, from Latin sēnsus, sense; see sense.

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  1. = French sensorium = Spanish Portuguese Italian sensorio, from Late Latin sensorium, the seat or organ of sensation, from Latin sensus, sense: see sense. Cf. sensory.
 

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