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Noun: sensory system
  1. The body's system of sense organs
    "The sensory system allows us to perceive our environment through sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell"
     
  2. A particular sense
    "The olfactory system is one of the basic sensory systems";
    - modality, sense modality

Derived forms: sensory systems

Type of: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency, system

Part of: body, organic structure

Encyclopedia: Sensory system