English > sensory receptor: 1 sense > noun 1, body| Meaning | An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation. |
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| Synonyms | sense organ, receptor |
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| Part of | sensory system | The body's system of sense organs |
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| Parts | papilla | A small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell |
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| Narrower | baroreceptor | A sensory receptor that responds to pressure |
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| chemoreceptor | A sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli |
| ear | The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium |
| exteroceptor | Any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body |
| eye, oculus, optic | The organ of sight |
| inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth | A complex system of interconnecting cavities |
| interoceptor, enteroceptor | Any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body |
| lateral line, lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians |
| organ of hearing | The part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound |
| semicircular canal | One of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another |
| stretch receptor | A receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue |
| thermoreceptor | A sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold |
| third eye, pineal eye | A sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles |
| Broader | organ | A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
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| Opposite | effector | An organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses |
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| Spanish | órgano sensorial, receptor, receptor sensorial |
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| Catalan | òrgan sensorial, receptor, receptor sensitiu |
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