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Receptor

noun

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.

An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation. Synonyms: sense organ, sensory receptor. Antonym: effector.

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"Receptor" Quotes from Famous Books

... transmission much less. The images of auditory and visual symbols in the growth of speech replace in our minds concrete images and they permit of abstract thought. It is dependent primarily upon the ear, an organ of exquisite feeling, whose sensations are infinite in number and in kind. This sensory receptor with its cerebral perceptor has in the long process of time, aided by vision, under the influence of natural laws of the survival of the fittest, educated and developed an instrument of simple construction ...

— The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song • F. W. Mott