chemoceptorn.
/ˌkiːmə(ʊ)ˈsɛptə/, /ˌkɛmə(ʊ)ˈsɛptə/, U.S. /ˌkimoʊˈsɛptər/, /ˌkɛmoʊˈsɛptər/ Immunology and Physiology.
= chemoreceptor n.
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1910 W. E. Home tr. P. Ehrlich in Lancet 8 Oct. 1097/1 I began to see there must be some special arrangements with affinity for particular chemical groups to fix them to the cell. These special arrangements, these bonds, I name chemoceptors.
1931 E. B. Holt Animal Drive & Learning Process 130 By a moderate deficiency of oxygen in the air some chemoceptors (perhaps in the lungs..), are stimulated.
1966 Science 18 Nov. 905/3 In higher animals, a chemoceptor system is responsible for the sense of taste.
2007 European Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. & Reprod. Biol. 130 51 Activation of spontaneous contractions induced by [the peptide] SLIGRL in non-pregnant rat myometrium did not involve coactivation of membrane chemoceptors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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