Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A specialized sensory end organ that responds to mechanical stimuli such as tension, pressure, or displacement.
Wiktionary
- n. biology any receptor that provides an organism with information about mechanical changes in its environment, such as movement, tension and pressure
Etymologies
- From mechano- + receptor (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Dinse HR (1996) Functional characterization of cutaneous mechanoreceptor properties in aged rats.”
“a putative mechanoreceptor complex involving the primary cilium?”
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