nociceptor
Meaning of nociceptor
noun
- a sensory receptor for painful stimuli.
the heat from eating chillies produces ‘nociceptor firing’
early 20th century: from Latin nocere ‘to harm’ + receptor.
Information about nociceptor
- It is a name.
- The plural form of nociceptor is: nociceptors.
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Hyphenation of nociceptor
no-ci-cep-tor
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- nociceptor is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Words that rhyme with nociceptor
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