Definition of Taste cell

1. Noun. An epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve.

Exact synonyms: Gustatory Cell
Generic synonyms: Epithelial Cell
Group relationships: Gustatory Organ, Taste Bud, Tastebud

Lexicographical Neighbors of Taste Cell

tast
tastable
tastant
tastants
taste
taste-maker
taste-tester
taste blindness
taste bud
taste buds
taste bulb
taste cell (current term)
taste cells
taste corpuscle
taste deficiency
taste hairs
taste like chicken
taste of one's own medicine
taste perception
taste pore
taste property
taste ridge
taste sensation
taste tester
taste threshold
tasteable

Literary usage of Taste cell

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

1. Smell, Taste, and Allied Senses in the Vertebrates by George Howard Parker (1922)
"Each taste-cell is an attenuated delicate structure whose elongate nucleus ... Proximal to the nucleus the taste-cell extends into the deeper part of the ..."

2. Smell, Taste, and Allied Senses in the Vertebrates by George Howard Parker (1922)
"Each taste-cell is an attenuated delicate structure whose elongate nucleus ... Proximal to the nucleus the taste-cell extends into the deeper part of the ..."

3. Smell, Taste, and Allied Senses in the Vertebrates by George Howard Parker (1922)
"Each taste-cell is an attenuated delicate structure whose elongate nucleus ... Proximal to the nucleus the taste-cell extends into the deeper part of the ..."

4. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"The stimulus arouses the taste cell, and this in turn arouses the ending of the ... The taste cell, or its tip, is extra sensitive to chemical stimuli, ..."

5. ... The Sense of Taste by Harry Levi Hollingworth, Albert Theodor Poffenberger (1917)
"According to this view, the taste cell is a neurone * which is directly affected by the stimulus and forms the first link in the chain of neurones ..."

6. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1916)
"A taste cell bathed by a stimulating solution is in a condition very similar indeed to that of the various tissues experimented upon by Loeb and Beutner ..."

7. A Text-book of Physiology by Isaac Ott (1909)
"K, Lower end. E, Free end, open with the projecting apices of the taste-cells. III. Isolated protective cell (<1) with a taste-cell ..."

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