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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
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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