sense organ
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1. an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | organ, |
| definition | : | a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | lateral line, lateral line organ, |
| definition | : | sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | exteroceptor, |
| definition | : | any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | pineal eye, third eye, |
| definition | : | a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | baroreceptor, |
| definition | : | a sensory receptor that responds to pressure (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | chemoreceptor, |
| definition | : | a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | thermoreceptor, |
| definition | : | a sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | ear, |
| definition | : | the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | organ of hearing, |
| definition | : | the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth, |
| definition | : | a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | semicircular canal, |
| definition | : | one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | stretch receptor, |
| definition | : | a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | papilla, |
| definition | : | a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell (noun.body) |
| part meronym | : | sensory system, |
| definition | : | the body's system of sense organs (noun.body) |
| antonym | : | effector, |
| definition | : | an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses (noun.body) |
| derivation | : | pick up, receive, |
| definition | : | register (perceptual input) (verb.perception) |
| antonym | : | effector, |
| definition | : | an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses (noun.body) |
| derivation | : | pick up, receive, |
| definition | : | register (perceptual input) (verb.perception) |
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