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tangoreceptor Zool.|ˈtæŋgəʊrɪˌsɛptə(r)|
[f. L. tang-ĕre to touch + -o + receptor.]
A sensory receptor which responds to touch or pressure.
1906C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nervous Syst. ix. 335 The sessile creature retains..only some gustatory (?) receptors round the mouth, and some tangoreceptors..in the tegument. 1937L. V. Heilbrunn Outl. Gen. Physiol. xl. 506 In man and mammals, in addition to ordinary free nerve endings, special types of tangoreceptors are found in the skin and in the viscera. 1980L. H. Chappell Physiol. Parasites ix. 165 The sensory papillae of cercariae are thought to be tangoreceptors. |