| 单词 | receptor |
| 释义 | receptor (once / 11088 pages) n WORD FAMILY receptor: receptors+/receive: receivable, received, receiver, receives, receiving, reception, receptive, receptor, recipient/receiver: receivers, receivership/receivership: receiverships/reception: receptionist, receptions/receptionist: receptionists/receptive: receptively, receptiveness, receptivity, unreceptive/receptivity: receptivities/recipient: recipients USAGE EXAMPLESCheese proteins contain casomorphins, chemical compounds that attach to the same opiate receptors in the brain as heroin or morphine. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) But the result is startlingly delicious, hitting your brain’s receptors like a jackpot. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) With the reduction of dopamine receptors, the person needs more and more of her favored substance to produce the euphoria it once offered her. New York Times(Oct 12, 2016) 1n a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response Hypo|Hyper alpha receptor, alpha-adrenergic receptor, alpha-adrenoceptor receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles) beta receptor, beta-adrenergic receptor, beta-adrenoceptorreceptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasodilation and increased heart beat) anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing 2n an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper sense organ, sensory receptor effector an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses lateral line, lateral line organ sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water enteroceptor, interoceptorany receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body exteroceptorany receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body pineal eye, third eyea sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles baroreceptora sensory receptor that responds to pressure chemoreceptora sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli thermoreceptora sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold eye, oculus, opticthe organ of sight earthe sense organ for hearing and equilibrium organ of hearingthe part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound inner ear, internal ear, labyrintha complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium semicircular canalone of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium stretch receptora receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebudan oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue naked eyethe eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects peeperan informal term referring to the eye OD, oculus dexterthe right eye OS, oculus sinisterthe left eye ocellus, simple eye, stemmaan eye having a single lens compound eyein insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image organ of Cortithe hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves carotid bodya chemoreceptor located near the bifurcations of the carotid arteries; monitors oxygen content of the blood and helps control respiration nose, olfactory organthe organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals organ a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
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