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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
receptor
1. 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
• Hypernyms:
structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
• Hyponyms:
alpha receptor, alpha-adrenergic receptor, alpha-adrenoceptor, beta receptor, beta-adrenergic receptor, beta-adrenoceptor
2. an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
• Syn:
sense organ, sensory receptor
• Ant:
effector
• Derivationally related forms:
receive
• Hypernyms:
organ
• Hyponyms:
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
• Part Holonyms:
sensory system
• Part Meronyms:
papilla
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