Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sensorium
n 1: the areas of the brain that process and register incoming
sensory information and make possible the conscious
awareness of the world