sensory receptor

Noun
  1. An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation (synset 105306677)
    is a type of: organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • eye, oculus, optic - the organ of sight
    • 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
    has: papilla - a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell
    is a part of: sensory system - the body's system of sense organs
    same as: receptor, sense organ

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