Meanings
adjectiveorosensory (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to oral senses (e.g., taste, oral kinesthetic sense), and especially the innervation that provides for them.
Furthermore, these data support the current view that feedback from the stomach is unnecessary for the termination of drinking behavior and are consistent with a role of orosensory or postgastric feedback.
2014 June 4, Anikó Marshall et al., “Roux-en-Y gastric bypass does not affect daily water intake or the drinking response to dipsogenic stimuli in rats”, in American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, volume 307, →DOI
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with orosensory
sensorydispensarysomatosensorymultisensoryextrasensorychemosensorysuspensoryaudiosensoryauditosensorybiosensorybisensoryelectrosensorygenitosensoryhemisensoryhygrosensoryincensoryintersensorylaterosensorymagnetosensorymechanosensorymonosensoryneurosensorynonsensoryosmosensory
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