responsor

Noun

responsor (plural responsors)

1. A receiver used in conjunction with an interrogator to receive and interpret signals from a transponder.
   • The duplexing circuits are located between the interrogator and the responsor at the common feed point to the antenna transmission line.1947, Caldwell-Clements' Tele-Tech - Volume 6, page 64
   • The distance between two points at which radio stations are located is determined: at one point is an interrogator (radar) , at the other a responsor (radio beacon) .1961, Nikolaĭ Grigorʹevich Viduev, Radar in Engineering Explorations, page 31
2. A person who is assigned responsibility for daily care of a person with a chronic illness and for working with the health care professionals.
   • In one sense the role is not new. The lay family member who attends the sick relative is part of a more ancient tradition than the physician or nurse. What is new in the concept of the responsor is contributed by the increasing complexity of modern therapy for chronic illness and the slow...1978, Anthony R. Kovner, Samuel P. Martin, Community health and medical care, →ISBN, page 158
   • Often persons in the responsor role are limited in performing this role because of their own ailments.1982, Nancy Burns, Nursing and Cancer, →ISBN, page 12