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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
nerve ending +    
nerve ending of of corpus cavernosum maxillaris 
sensory receptor +  
A sensory nerve ending that responds to a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism. In response to stimuli the sensory receptor initiates sensory transduction by creating graded potentials or action potentials in the same cell or in an adjacent one.

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: peripheral ending of sensory neuron
Related Synonyms: sensory nerve ending
Xrefs: FMA:84650 ;   MESH:D011984 ;   NCI:C13819 ;   SCTID:70402007 ;   UMLS:C0682664 ;   Wikipedia:Sensory_receptor
Definition Sources: Wikipedia:Sensory_receptor

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