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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SENSO'RIUM, n. [from L. senus, sentio.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -riums or sensoria) Etymology: Late Latin, sense organ, from Latin sentire Date: 1647 the parts of the brain or the mind concerned with the reception and interpretation of sensory stimuli; broadly the entire sensory apparatus

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. sensoria or sensoriums) 1 the seat of sensation, the brain, brain and spinal cord, or grey matter of these. 2 Biol. the whole sensory apparatus including the nerve-system. Derivatives: sensorial adj. sensorially adv. Etymology: LL f. L sentire sens- feel

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sensorium Sen*so"ri*um, n.; pl. E. Sensoriums, L. Sensoria. [L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.