sensorium commune

a hypothetical location in the brain formerly held to be the seat of sensation in humans and nonhuman animals and the site for the operations of the sensus communis. Also called sensorium.

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May 9th 2024

node of Ranvier

any of successive regularly spaced gaps in the myelin sheath surrounding an axon. The gaps permit the exchange of ions across the plasma membrane at those points, allowing the nerve impulse to leap from one node to the next in so-called saltatory conduction along the axon. [Louis A. Ranvier (1835–1922), French pathologist]