Also called vibrissae, the long hairs dot their cheeks in a square-grid pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Designing Robots With Whiskers | Impact Lab] Reference

An additional 3,000 vibrissae are spaced less densely over the rest of the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manatees] Reference

These bristly vibrissae serve to transmit information to the brain via nerve fibers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolas Kozloff: BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee] Reference

A! he needed were five or six delicate vibrissae on each side of the nose to make the illusion complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian Way]

Mystax: in Diptera; a patch of hair or bristles above the mouth, on the lower part of the hypostoma above the vibrissae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Though other animals such as dogs have vibrissae, they don't have them in such large numbers and typically only on the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolas Kozloff: BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee] Reference

Facial bristles: Diptera; a series on either side of the middle portion of the face, above the vibrissae, along the facialia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

In murky waters, the manatees 'acute sense of touch and vibrissae, located on the face but also all over the body, come in handy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolas Kozloff: BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee] Reference

His grasping limbs were straight and strong, his prehensile, manipulative vibrissae were numerous and delicate and his optic patches were more beautifully opalescent than any she had ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian Way]

These clusters, the researchers suspect, are the manatee equivalents of the cell groupings called barrels found in other whiskered species like mice and rats, regions that process sensory information from the vibrissae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manatees] Reference

It seems that rorquals possess batteries of sensory organs within and around the buccal pouch: there are laminated corpuscles closely associated with the ventral grooves that might serve a sensory function, and located around the edges of the jaws, and at their tips, are a number of short (12.5 mm) vibrissae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

When the vibrissae are touched, the head is moved noticeably.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference

The rat is immobile and display phasic movements of the vibrissae.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The vibrissae are longer, but touching them still fails to cause a reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference

Contact with the vibrissae or with the surface of the body, frequently calls forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference

Most of them continuously made use of their eyes, their noses, and their vibrissae.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference

Pelage coarse, with moderately large piles, most numerous on the back; vibrissae moderately long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

They are shown with long tails, slightly curved at the tips, and with long head and prominent vibrissae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference

They are very sensitive to currents of air, but they do not respond to light or sound and seldom to contact with the vibrissae.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference

REM sleep was characterized by "visually detectable posture changes -- the neck extended and the head moved forward and rested on the platform -- muscle and vibrissae jerks as well as rapid eye movements.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Discovery Channel :: Top Highlights] Reference

Meanwhile, inside the Grand Hyatt's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of our language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate, according to The Associated Press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moultrie Observer Homepage] Reference

We have already suggested that the animal attired in man's clothing, and walking erect in Dresden 25a-28a is likewise a dog, though Stempell believes it to represent the opossum in support of which he calls attention to its prominent vibrissae and slightly curled tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference

They have a highly developed sense of touch, mediated by thick hairs called vibrissae. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolas Kozloff: BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee] Reference

In research over the last five years, Dr. Reep and his colleagues have shown that manatees have 2,000 facial vibrissae of varying thickness, 600 of them in the so-called oral disk, a circular region between mouth and nose that the manatee uses much like an elephant’s trunk, to grasp or explore objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manatees] Reference

The episodes of PS occurring after Mus and saline injections were similarly characterized by a cortical EEG desynchronization combined with a muscle atonia and rapid eyes and vibrissae movements (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

His vibrissae dipped in mercury for good contact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian Way]