Citations:neurosensiferous
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English citations of neurosensiferous
- 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.