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sensory receptors

sensory receptors is the plural of sensory receptor.

Meaning of sensory receptor

Noun

sensory receptor (plural sensory receptors)

  1. A sensory nerve ending that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism.

Questions about sensory receptors

What is sensory receptors the plural of?
Sensory receptors is the plural of sensory receptor.

Words near sensory receptors in the dictionary

  1. sensory processing sensitivities
  2. sensory processing sensitivity
  3. sensory recall
  4. sensory recalls
  5. sensory receptor
  6. sensory receptors
  7. sensory root
  8. sensory roots
  9. sensu
  10. sensu lato
  11. sensu latu

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