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sensory receptor
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  sensory receptor - an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulationsense organ, receptorlateral line, lateral line organ - sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the waterorgan - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular functionenteroceptor, interoceptor - any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the bodyexteroceptor - any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the bodypineal eye, third eye - a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptilesbaroreceptor - a sensory receptor that responds to pressurechemoreceptor - a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimulithermoreceptor - a sensory receptor that responds to heat and coldeye, oculus, optic - the organ of sightear - the sense organ for hearing and equilibriumorgan of hearing - the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of soundinner ear, internal ear, labyrinth - a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibriumsemicircular canal - one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibriumstretch receptor - a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissuepapilla - a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell; "the papillae of the tongue"sensory system - the body's system of sense organs |
EncyclopediaSeereceptorsensory receptor
sensory receptorA sensory nerve ending, a cell or group of cells, or a sense organ that when stimulated produces an afferent or sensory impulse. ClassificationExteroreceptors are receptors located on or near the surface that respond to stimuli from the outside world. They include eye and ear receptors (for remote stimuli) and touch, temperature, and pain receptors (for contact). Interoceptors are those in the mucous linings of the respiratory and digestive tracts that respond to internal stimuli; also called visceroceptors. Proprioceptors are those responding to stimuli arising within body tissues. Receptors also are classified according to the nature of stimuli to which they respond. These include chemoreceptors, which respond to chemicals (taste buds, olfactory cells, receptors in aortic and carotid bodies); pressoreceptors, which respond to pressure (receptors in the aortic and carotid sinuses); photoreceptors, which respond to light (rods and cones); and tactile receptors, which respond to touch (Meissner corpuscle). See also: receptorsensory receptor see RECEPTOR.sensory receptor
Synonyms for sensory receptornoun an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulationSynonymsRelated Words- lateral line
- lateral line organ
- organ
- enteroceptor
- interoceptor
- exteroceptor
- pineal eye
- third eye
- baroreceptor
- chemoreceptor
- thermoreceptor
- eye
- oculus
- optic
- ear
- organ of hearing
- inner ear
- internal ear
- labyrinth
- semicircular canal
- stretch receptor
- papilla
- sensory system
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