Sense Organ
Of organ and sensory system. May also be referred to as receptor and sensory receptor.
An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation.
This concept's ID is @1~28967
Ear
- ear
The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
- organ of hearing
The part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound.
Labyrinth
- 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...
Also contains
- eye
The organ of sight.
- chemoreceptor
A sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli.
- lateral line
Sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the wa...
- third eye
A sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon...
- papilla
A small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell; "the papillae...
- stretch receptor
A receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue.
- interoceptor
Any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body.
- exteroceptor
Any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body.
- baroreceptor
A sensory receptor that responds to pressure.
- thermoreceptor
A sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold.