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chemoreceptor

noun

che·​mo·​re·​cep·​tor ˌkē-mō-ri-ˈsep-tər How to pronounce chemoreceptor (audio)
: a sense organ (such as a taste bud) responding to chemical stimuli

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web All these substances can stimulate what’s called the chemoreceptor trigger zone in your brainstem, which communicates with another brain region called the vomiting center. Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 15 June 2020 In fact, the vomiting in motion sickness is induced by the same area of the brain — the chemoreceptor trigger zone in the medulla — that causes vomiting in response to poisons. Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2018

Word History

Etymology

chemo- + receptor, after chemoreception

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of chemoreceptor was in 1906

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