| 单词 | sense organ |
| 释义 | > as lemmassense organ sense organ n. [compare German Sinnorgan, (now usually) Sinnesorgan (both 18th cent. or earlier)] (originally) an organ of any of the special senses (sight, hearing, smell, and taste); (in later use also) any organ containing nerve cells capable of receiving and responding to stimuli.In extended use in quot. 1826. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > [noun] windowc1230 organala1500 sense?1504 sensator1615 sensory1624 sensitory1649 sensatory1673 sense organ1826 sensoriolum1843 1826 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 595 The Creator has given us spiritual Senses and Sense-organs. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 173 Brain and sense-organs. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. xvii. 191 The special sense-organs for perceiving low-frequency vibrations in water. 2006 Clin. Anat. 19 71/1 The turbinates..are derived from the prechordal plate, which is part of the sensory capsules that protected the sense organs..of the ancestral prechordates. < as lemmas |
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