sense organ
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- noun
- /sɛns ˈɔrɡən/
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órgano sensorial
- Animals often rely on their sense organs to navigate their environment and find food.
But this life will not feel enhanced by perceiving more through the five sense organs.
- But this life will not feel enhanced by perceiving more through the five sense organs.
- It, it reacts not following the apprehension of reason, but the apprehension of the sensitive parts that is our our sense organs, right?
Examples
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The doctors examined the patient's sense organs to determine the cause of her hearing loss.
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Batteries of touch-sensitive hairs around the eyes and ears inform them about their surroundings, as does a remarkable sense of smell and a moist nose, which is joined by a groove to a special sense organ in the roof of the mouth.
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By reading the animal's feet, its eyes, and other sense organs, the zoologist should be able to tell how it found its food.
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All your sense organs are outward bound because they are survival instruments.
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A typical neuron would collect information either from other neurons or from sense organs through its dendrites.
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Autarchoglossans use their tongues to pick up heavy, non-airborne chemicals and deliver them to the vomeronasal organ, a sense organ in the roof of the mouth.
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Descartes' view of scientific knowledge is reductionist, to the extent that, say, the perception of red is merely a subjective indication of a property existing objectively in reality which we are able to detect with our sense organs.
Blog text (28) -
These authors all reported similar pathologies: deposition of various amounts of fibrous tissue and new bone in the inner ear spaces and degeneration of the organ of Corti and vestibular sense organs.
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The human body has five main sense organs that detect different types of sensations.
Synonyms
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A body part that senses touch, light, or sound and sends signals to the brain
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: combining 'sense' (a faculty for sensing) with 'organ' (a part that performs a function) yields 'an organ for sensing', which a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer. The technical extension to artificial sensors in robotics is a predictable analogy of biological sense organs and is cross-linguistically common, so the expression is transparent.
Etymology
The term sense organ comes from the words sense, meaning 'to feel or notice', and organ, meaning a body part that does a job. It creates the image of a body 'tool' that picks up sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell, so it means the parts that let us sense the world.