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receptor

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receptor
Physiol a sensory nerve ending that changes specific stimuli into nerve impulses

receptor [ri′sep·tər]
(biochemistry)
A site or structure in a cell which combines with a drug or other biological to produce a specific alteration of cell function.
(physiology)
A sense organ.


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development has brought about two things : (1) a series of functional connections among arcs which run from visual receptor to muscles of throat, and (2) a series of already earlier connected arcs which run from the same receptor to the bodily muscles.
 
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