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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