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neutroceptors

neutroceptors is the plural of neutroceptor.

Meaning of neutroceptor

Noun

neutroceptor (plural neutroceptors)

  1. A sensory receptor that is stimulated by both pleasant and unpleasant stimuli.
    • He divides receptors into three classes— "nociceptors", such as the nerve-endings for pain and hunger, "beneceptors", such as the nerve-endings stimulated when sugar melts on the tongue, and "neutroceptors", such as the nerve-endings in the eye and ear, called " neutroceptors " because they receive...1929, The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, page 310

Questions about neutroceptors

What is neutroceptors the plural of?
Neutroceptors is the plural of neutroceptor.

Words near neutroceptors in the dictionary

  1. neutrocclusion
  2. neutrocclusions
  3. neutroception
  4. neutroceptive
  5. neutroceptor
  6. neutroceptors
  7. neutroclusion
  8. neutroclusions
  9. neutrocyte
  10. neutrocytes
  11. neutrocytic

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