- sensilla
- noun see sensillum
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
sensilla
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Sensilla — ( sg .= sensillum) are insect sensory organs protruding from the cuticle, or sometime lie within or beneath it. They are divided in chemical, mechanical, thermal and visual sensilla … Wikipedia
sensilla — A modified seta found on the dactylus of the pereopods. It is similar to an aesthetasc, but has a heavier cuticle that is covered with many tiny lobes (often only visible in a scanning electron micrograph). (Pl. sensilla) [Wilson, 1989] … Crustacea glossary
sensilla candelari — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In the fulgorid Pyrops folded sensory plaque organs having numerous bipolar neurons arranged in groups; may have evolved from a cluster of basiconic sensilla … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
sensilla circumfila — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) Thin walled chemoreceptors with pores on fine surface ridges of elaborately looped sensilla on the antennae of cecidomyids … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
sensilla pouch — (NEMATA) An expansion of the amphidial tube, containing the sensory elements of the sensilla situated posterior to the amphidial pouch; fusus amphidialis … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
sensilla — n.; pl. ae [L. sensus, sense] see sensillum … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
Campaniform sensilla — are mechanoreceptors found in insects. When the exoskeleton bends the resulting strain stimulates the sensilla. The displacement is transmitted down until it reaches the central nervous system. The term campaniform refers to the bell shape… … Wikipedia
placoid sensilla — see sensillum placodeum … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
slit sensilla — (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) In Decapoda, small pits lying just distal to the walking leg joints; insertions of the dendrites of the joint proprioceptors of Homarus … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
styloconic sensilla — see sensillum styloconicum … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
