sensory nerve

Questions about sensory nerve

What does sensory nerve mean?

sensory nerve means "a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system".

What is another word for sensory nerve?

Close synonyms include afferent nerve, afferent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sensory nerve a common word?

sensory nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.