Synonyms for receptor
rɪˈsɛp tərre·cep·tor

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1. receptornoun

   a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response

   Synonyms:
   sense organ, sensory receptor

   Antonyms:
   effector

2. sense organ, sensory receptor, receptornoun

   an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation

   Synonyms:
   sense organ, sensory receptor

   Antonyms:
   effector

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   a woman in love who is open to and desirous of sex.

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1. List of paraphrases for "receptor":

   receptors, receiver, receiving, receivers

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How to use receptor in a sentence?

1. David Melzer:

   These include genes that interact with health behaviors, such as the nicotine receptor gene.

2. Ripley Ballou:

   Viruses are pretty simple organisms and they all have antigens on their surface that are necessary to get them inside cells, everybody knows what the target for MERS is, it is the core spike protein, which is one of things that targets the cell receptor and allows it to get in. It's a single protein that can be used to induce an immune response.

3. Antoni Wrobel:

   We can then start to think about therapeutics that would fit somewhere either in the receptor surface or somewhere in the spike itself that then act as drugs.

4. Robert McLean:

   Denosumab also decreases bone resorption by inhibiting maturation of osteoclasts through binding to a receptor on the surface of 'pre-osteoclast cells,'.

5. Robert Kloner:

   Entresto was shown to be better than enalapril (a standard angiostensin receptor blocker) for reducing these adverse outcomes.