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mechanoreceptors

mechanoreceptors is the plural of mechanoreceptor.

Meaning of mechanoreceptor

Noun

mechanoreceptor (plural mechanoreceptors)

  1. any receptor that provides an organism with information about mechanical changes in its environment, such as movement, tension and pressure

Questions about mechanoreceptors

What is mechanoreceptors the plural of?
Mechanoreceptors is the plural of mechanoreceptor.

Words near mechanoreceptors in the dictionary

  1. mechanoreception
  2. mechanoreceptive
  3. mechanoreceptivity
  4. mechanoreceptor
  5. mechanoreceptorial
  6. mechanoreceptors
  7. mechanoreceptory
  8. mechanoreciprocity
  9. mechanoreflex
  10. mechanoreflexes
  11. mechanoregulate

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