Usually means: Sensors detecting external environmental stimuli.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word exteroceptor:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. exteroceptor: Merriam-Webster
  2. exteroceptor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exteroceptor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exteroceptor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exteroceptor: Vocabulary.com
  6. exteroceptor: Wiktionary
  7. exteroceptor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. exteroceptor: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. exteroceptor: Dictionary.com
  10. exteroceptor: Rhymezone
  11. exteroceptor: FreeDictionary.org
  12. exteroceptor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. exteroceptor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. exteroceptor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. exteroceptor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. exteroceptor: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exteroceptor)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) A sense organ or nerve receptor that responds to external stimuli

Similar:
exteroreceptor, interoceptor, enteroreceptor, interoception, exteriority, extern, enteroception, outer, extrinsic, outside, more...

Opposite:
interoceptor, proprioceptor, nociceptor

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Similar:
exteroreceptor, interoceptor, enteroreceptor, interoception, exteriority, extern, enteroception, outer, extrinsic, outside, more...

Opposite:
interoceptor, proprioceptor, nociceptor



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