nociceptor /no·ci·cep·tor/ (-sep´ter) a receptor for pain caused by injury, physical or chemical, to body tissues.nocicep´tive
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nociceptor [no″se-sep´tor]
nociceptor (nō´sisep´t
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no·ci·cep·tor (n  s -s p t r)n. A sensory receptor that responds to pain. |
Nociceptor
A nerve cell that is capable of sensing pain and transmitting a pain signal.
nociceptor
[nō′sēsep′tər]
a somatic and visceral free nerve ending of thinly myelinated and unmyelinated fibers. It usually reacts to tissue injury but also may be excited by endogenous chemical substances.
nociceptor [no″se-sep´tor]
a receptor for pain, stimulated by various kinds of tissue injury. adj., adj nocicep´tive.
nociceptor (nō´sisep´t
r),n somatic and visceral free nerve endings of thinly myelinated and unmyelinated fibers. They usually react to tissue injury but also may be excited by endogenous chemical substances.
nociceptor
a receptor that is stimulated by injury; a receptor for pain.
nociceptor
Pain receptor Neurology Any of a class of periarticular and mucocutaneous sense organs and neural receptors–eg, reflex loops for reception and response to pain; located primarily in the skin or viscera, nociceptors respond to
chemical, mechanical, or other stimuli
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