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Definition of Sensory receptor
1. Noun. An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation.
Specialized synonyms: Lateral Line, Lateral Line 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
Generic synonyms: Organ
Terms within: Papilla
Group relationships: Sensory System
Antonyms: Effector
Derivative terms: Receive
Definition of Sensory receptor
1. Noun. A sensory nerve ending that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensory Receptor
Literary usage of Sensory receptor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"When the tendon is tapped, a sensory receptor in the muscle is excited and an
afferent impulse travels in a sensory nerve to the spinal cord, ..."
2. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... form the two chief secondary synapses of the auditory pathway. The neurons of
this pathway are as follows: First Neuron: sensory receptor in ..."
3. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"Sensory (receptor) cells from human olfactory epithelium, X 175. XIII. Multipolar
ganglion cell from optic ganglion of horse. (The processes of the right ..."
4. The Health Consequences of Smoking: Cancer and Chronic Lung Disease in the by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Epithelial injury and sensory receptor sensitization may contribute, therefore,
to both cough (bronchitis) and airways constriction (byssinosis). ..."
5. An Introduction to Psychology by James Rowland Angell (1918)
"Diagram to illustrate synapsis of arborization of axone of a sensory receptor
from the skin, SK, with dendritic terminals of central system neurones, 1, 2. ..."
6. An Introduction to Psychology by James Rowland Angell (1918)
"Diagram to illustrate synapsis of arborization of axone of a sensory receptor
from the skin, SK, witli dendritic terminals of central system neurones, 1, 2. ..."
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