Sensory receptor

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 70402007

Sensory receptor

Definition

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.

Also known as peripheral ending of sensory neuron — per UBERON

The Sensory receptor is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as