sensori-volitional

English

Etymology

Blend of sensory +‎ volitional

Adjective

sensori-volitional (not comparable)

1. (biology) Involved in both sensation and volition; applied to certain nerve fibers that pass to and from the cerebrospinal axis.
   • 1839, William B. Carpenter, Inaugural Dissertation on the Phsiological Inferences to be Deduced from the Structure of the Nervous System in the Invertebrated Classes of Animals:

     The centres of these systems are brought into closer structural relation with that of the sensori-volitional system as we ascend the scale of Invertebrated Animals

References

• “sensori-volitional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.