sensory receptor

Questions about sensory receptor

What does sensory receptor mean?

sensory receptor means "an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation".

What is another word for sensory receptor?

Close synonyms include sense organ, receptor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sensory receptor a common word?

sensory receptor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.