Word.ws English Dictionary

proprioceptor

proprioceptor noun: a nerve ending that functions as a sensory receptor in muscles, tendons, joints and the inner ear; they respond to movement and position.

Noun

proprioceptor (plural proprioceptors)

  1. A nerve ending that functions as a sensory receptor in muscles, tendons, joints and the inner ear; they respond to movement and position

Forms of proprioceptor

pluralproprioceptors

Origin of proprioceptor

Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, originally in the spelling proprio-ceptor, from proprius + clipped receptor.

Questions about proprioceptor

What does proprioceptor mean?
Proprioceptor means a nerve ending that functions as a sensory receptor in muscles, tendons, joints and the inner ear; they respond to movement and position.
What part of speech is proprioceptor?
Proprioceptor is a noun.
What is the plural of proprioceptor?
The plural of proprioceptor is proprioceptors.

Words near proprioceptor in the dictionary

  1. proprioception
  2. proprioceptional
  3. proprioceptions
  4. proprioceptive
  5. proprioceptively
  6. proprioceptor
  7. proprioceptors
  8. proprioceptory
  9. propriolactone
  10. propriomotor
  11. proprionate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: proprioceptor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “proprioceptor.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/proprioceptor. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.