nociceptorn.
/ˈnəʊsᵻsɛptə/, U.S. /ˈnoʊsəˌsɛptər/ Physiology.
A sensory receptor that responds to painful or potentially injurious stimuli.
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1906 C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. Syst. ix. 330 The reaction initiated by a noci-ceptor..is to be regarded as consummatory.
1967 Jrnl. Physiol. 190 541 Seventy-four fibres conducting between 6 and 37 m/sec were classified as nociceptors because they responded only to damaging mechanical stimulation of the skin.
1986 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 37 353 The first evidence of nociceptors appears in fossil remains of 150 million years ago.
1994 Independent on Sunday 20 Nov. (Review Suppl.) 59/4 Apparently the heat [from eating chillies] produces ‘nociceptor firing’: the nociceptor cell transmits pain to the brain which produces chemicals called endorphins.
2003 Daily Tel. 30 Apr. 9/3 The 18 ‘polymodal nociceptors’, which responded to all potentially painful stimuli in the trout, were the first to be found in fish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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