Vi fant 6 definisjoner av receptor på engelsk.
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| receptor - a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response | ||
| anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" | ||
| alpha-adrenergic receptor, alpha-adrenoceptor, alpha receptor receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles) | ||
| 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, sensory 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 | ||
