nociceptors

Meaning of nociceptors

plural noun
  1. 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 nociceptors

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of nociceptors is: nociceptor.
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Hyphenation of nociceptors

no-ci-cep-tors

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • nociceptors is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

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