Usually means: Sensitive to mechanical pressure, stimuli.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanoreceptive: Merriam-Webster
  2. mechanoreceptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mechanoreceptive: Wiktionary
  4. mechanoreceptive: Dictionary.com
  5. mechanoreceptive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mechanoreceptive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanoreceptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. mechanoreceptive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mechanoreceptive)

▸ adjective:  Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch

Similar:
mechanoinsensitive, mechanonociceptive, electroresponsive, electrotactile, neuromechanistic, neurophonic, normoresponsive, neuromechanical, baroreceptive, prosensory, more...

Opposite:
non-tactile, non-haptic

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Similar:
mechanoinsensitive, mechanonociceptive, electroresponsive, electrotactile, neuromechanistic, neurophonic, normoresponsive, neuromechanical, baroreceptive, prosensory, more...

Opposite:
non-tactile, non-haptic



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