Usually means: Sensing stimuli originating outside body.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. exteroceptive: Merriam-Webster
  2. exteroceptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exteroceptive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. exteroceptive: Vocabulary.com
  5. exteroceptive: Wiktionary
  6. exteroceptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. exteroceptive: Dictionary.com
  8. exteroceptive: Rhymezone
  9. exteroceptive: FreeDictionary.org
  10. exteroceptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. exteroceptive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. exteroceptive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. exteroceptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. exteroceptive: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (pathology) That responds to external stimuli

Similar:
extroceptive, extrareceptive, extroverted, extraoral, external, exoteric, outer, posteroexternal, extrinsical, outward, more...

Opposite:
interoceptive, introspective, internal, inward-looking

Types:
visual, auditory, tactile, vestibular, gustatory, olfactory, more...

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Similar:
extroceptive, extrareceptive, extroverted, extraoral, external, exoteric, outer, posteroexternal, extrinsical, outward, more...

Opposite:
interoceptive, introspective, internal, inward-looking

Types:
visual, auditory, tactile, vestibular, gustatory, olfactory, more...



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