Anatomical system that overlaps the nervous system and is responsible for receiving and processing sensory information.

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note the distinct between entire sensory system and individual system. this reconciles is_a and part_of distinctions between ssAOs

sensory subsystem, organa sensuum, sense organs, sense organ subsystem, sensory systems, sense organs set

uberon

organa sensuum, sensory organ system, set of sense organs

An early step in the evolution of neural crest, therefore, may have been the origin of a specific dorsal neural cell population contributing to sensory processing; this would predate the divergence of the amphioxus and vertebrate lineages.[well established][VHOG]

UBERON:0001032

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl

• sensory receptor cell
• sense organ