Definition of Exteroceptor

1. Noun. Any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body.


Definition of Exteroceptor

1. Noun. (anatomy) A sense organ or nerve receptor that responds to external stimuli ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exteroceptor

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Exteroceptor

1. One of the peripheral end organs of the afferent nerves in the skin or mucous membrane, which respond to stimulation by external agents. Origin: L. Exterus, external, + receptor, receiver (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exteroceptor

externalizes
externalizing
externally
externalness
externals
externat
externats
externe
externes
externs
externship
externships
externus
exteroception
exteroceptive
exteroceptor (current term)
exteroceptors
exterofective
exterofective system
exterplex
exterplexes
exterraneous
exterritorial
exterritoriality
extersion
exthorio
extill
extillation
extillations
extilled

Literary usage of Exteroceptor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"(exteroceptor) of the foot. The " immediate spinal induction" exemplified by reflexes has a counterpart in visual irradiation. ..."

2. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"The sense of smell is the leading exteroceptor in many lower vertebrates, and this function has been secondarily ..."

3. Smell, Taste, and Allied Senses in the Vertebrates by George Howard Parker (1922)
"Hence the olfactory organ has been appropriately classed as a distance receptor or exteroceptor, to use a convenient term from Sherrington (1906), ..."

4. The Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1908)
"... deglutition, etc., and another part becoming a typical exteroceptor (olfactory apparatus) and early establishing direct central reflex connections with ..."

5. The Transition to an Objective Standard of Social Control by Luther Lee Bernard (1911)
"... increased stimulation of any peripheral sense organ or exteroceptor other than a pain sense organ will also in higher animal forms give a pain reaction. ..."

6. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1918)
"These qualities in stimuli are usually not differentiated by the exteroceptor but by the autonomic apparatus through the reactions the stimuli produce there ..."

7. Psychopathology by Edward John Kempf (1920)
"... movements and assume such tensions as are appropriate for so exposing the exteroceptor as to (1) avoid the unsatisfactory stimuli in the environment, ..."

8. The Autonomic Functions and the Personality by Edward John Kempf (1921)
"When the exogenous stimulus is forced upon the exteroceptor quite a different process occurs. To return to the hypothetical snake in the grass ..."

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