Associations to the word «Thermoreceptor»

Wiktionary

THERMORECEPTOR, noun. (biology) A nerve cell that is sensitive to changes in temperature

Dictionary definition

THERMORECEPTOR, noun. A sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne