Definition of Interoceptive

1. Adjective. Of or relating to interoception.

Partainyms: Interoception

Definition of Interoceptive

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to interoception or an interoceptor ¹

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Definition of Interoceptive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Interoceptive

1. Relating to the sensory nerve cells innervating the viscera (thoracic, abdominal and pelvic organs, and the cardiovascular system), their sensory end organs, or the information they convey to the spinal cord and the brain. Origin: inter-+ L. Capio, to take (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interoceptive

internus
internym
internyms
interobserver
interobserver error
interocclusal
interocclusal clearance
interocclusal distance
interocclusal gap
interocclusal record
interocclusal registration
interocclusal rest space
interocean
interoceanic
interoception
interoceptive (current term)
interoceptor
interoceptors
interocular
interofective system
interoffice
interofficed
interoffices
interofficing
interolivary
interop
interoperability
interoperable
interoperably
interoperate

Literary usage of Interoceptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction a Report of the Surgeon by C. Everett Koop, M.D., DIANE Publishing Company (1988)
"These drug effects are discussed in Chapter V and include the following: (1) Drugs may produce interoceptive stimulus effects; that is, they can produce ..."

2. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"That the olfactory system was originally an interoceptive sense seems clear; but in all vertebrates living at the present time the visceral responses to ..."

3. The Transition to an Objective Standard of Social Control by Luther Lee Bernard (1911)
"Reasons for such confusion are: the fact that vegetative, sex, and pain sensory correlations with the interoceptive and exteroceptive neural processes being ..."

4. Value of Psychiatric Treatment: Its Efficacy in Severe Mental Disorders edited by Samuel J. Keith (1996)
"An open study of 25 patients treated for approximately 17 sessions with cognitive techniques combined with interoceptive and in vivo exposure resulted in ..."

5. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"Furthermore, anxiolytic compounds, mainly those acting at the GABAA receptor, have been reported to completely block the interoceptive cues of PTZ (Andrews ..."

6. Problems of Drug Dependence: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting by Louie S. Harrie (1999)
"Similarities between the discriminative stimulus properties of stress and cocaine supports the hypothesis that these interoceptive cues are produced by the ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... the interoceptive or visceral effectors), it is naturally purely reflex and its function is disturbed rather than facilitated by voluntary interference. ..."

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