nociceptor

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sensory receptor that sends signals that cause the perception of pain in response to a potentially damaging stimulus.
    — 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 more or less indiscriminately both pleasant and unpleasant messages.

词形变化

nociceptors plural

词源

Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, originally in the spelling noci-ceptor, from noceō + clipped form of receptor, signifying pain detection.
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