Definition of sensory receptor Sensory receptor
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What does sensory receptor mean?
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| sensory receptor - an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation | ||
| sense organ, receptor | ||
| effector an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses | ||
| organ wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard | ||
| sensory system the body's system of sense organs | ||
| lateral line, lateral line organ sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water | ||
| enteroceptor, interoceptor any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body | ||
| exteroceptor any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body | ||
| pineal eye, third eye a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles | ||
| baroreceptor a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | ||
| chemoreceptor a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli | ||
| thermoreceptor a sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold | ||
| oculus, optic, eye a small hole or loop (as in a needle); "the thread wouldn't go through the eye" | ||
| ear the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium | ||
| organ of hearing the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound | ||
| inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium | ||
| semicircular canal one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium | ||
| stretch receptor a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue | ||
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sensory receptor
A structure that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism.
