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单词 sense organ
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sense organ
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sense organ: sense organs
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There’s no obvious sense organ to dissect; magnetic fields sweep invisibly through the entire body, all the time.
Science Magazine(Jun 23, 2016)
He would also like to study other tyrannosaurs to learn about how their brains and sense organs changed throughout evolution.
The Verge(Mar 14, 2016)
We now have a new sense organ with which to fathom the cosmos.
Washington Post(Feb 19, 2016)
n an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
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receptor, sensory receptor
effector
an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses
lateral line, lateral line organ
sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water
enteroceptor, interoceptor
any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body
exteroceptor
any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body
pineal eye, third eye
a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles
baroreceptor
a sensory receptor that responds to pressure
chemoreceptor
a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli
thermoreceptor
a sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold
eye, oculus, optic
the organ of sight
ear
the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
organ of hearing
the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound
inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth
a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
semicircular canal
one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium
stretch receptor
a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue
gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebud
an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue
naked eye
the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects
peeper
an informal term referring to the eye
OD, oculus dexter
the right eye
OS, oculus sinister
the left eye
ocellus, simple eye, stemma
an eye having a single lens
compound eye
in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
organ of Corti
the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves
carotid body
a chemoreceptor located near the bifurcations of the carotid arteries; monitors oxygen content of the blood and helps control respiration
nose, olfactory organ
the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
organ
a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
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