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sensory receptor

 
Noun sensory receptor has 1 sense
  1. sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor - an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
    --1 is a kind of organ
    --1 is a part of sensory system
    --1 has parts: papilla
    --1 has particulars:
     lateral line, lateral line organ; interoceptor, enteroceptor; exteroceptor; third eye, pineal eye; baroreceptor; chemoreceptor; thermoreceptor; eye, oculus, optic; ear; organ of hearing; inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth; semicircular canal; stretch receptor
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