NOUN
- an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
How To Use sensory receptor In A Sentence
- This is probably one of the most archaic sensory receptors, which is present even in invertebrates such as the roundworm, leech or aplysia Time-surface temperature thresholds for thermal injury of Human skin. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Instead, they transfer compounds from their tongues into two elaborate sensory receptors known as the vomeronasal organs.
- It is generally difficult to discern the complete repertoire of other chemosensory receptor genes in mammals.
- Tissue polarity is functional as organisms have sensory receptors to detect mechanical and thermal stimuli from the environment.
- 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 (primarily adapted only for the vegetative functions of life and simple vocalisation) into that wonderful instrument the human voice; but by that development, borrowing the words of Huxley, "man has slowly accumulated and organised the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised as upon a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting here and there a ray from the infinite source of truth. The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
- In the sea, the krill schools use their highly developed sensory receptors to find food.
- Now, scientists have found that the same neurons that express fru also express a chemosensory receptor called Ir84a. Ars Technica
- That approach is limited to proceeding no further than the stimulation of sensory receptor sheets (retina, skin, taste buds, tympanum, olfactories).
- But sharks also detect their prey with sensory receptors that run along their sides.
- Sensory receptors provide information about the quality of the stimuli that they detect, giving rise to what philosophers call the qualia of conscious perceptual experience.
