neutroceptor
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sensory receptor that is stimulated by both pleasant and unpleasant stimuli.
Example Sentences
- "He divides receptors into three classes— "nociceptors", such as the nerve-endings for pain and hunger, "beneceptors", such as the nerve-endings stimulated when sugar melts on the tongue, and "neutroceptors", such as the nerve-endings in the eye and ear, called " neutroceptors " because they receive more or less indiscriminately both pleasant and unpleasant messages."
- "The “beneceptors,” “nociceptors,” and “neutroceptors” generally signalled stimuli that were, respectively, beneficial, harmful, or neutral as regards the organism or its species."
Etymology
From neutro- + -ceptor.