Vibrissa in a sentence as a noun

"You can remove a rat's cerebrum and have it stay alive and keep doing stuff: "Cage climbing, resistance to gravity, suspension and muscle tone reactions, rhythmic vibrissae movements and examination of objects with snout and mandible were difficult to distinguish from controls.

Vibrissa definitions

noun

a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

See also: whisker