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.