Term: carotid body: a chemoreceptor located near the bifurcations of the carotid arteries; monitors oxygen content of the blood and helps control respiration
Candidate hypernym: chemoreceptor: a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli → 1
Candidate hypernym: race: people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock → 0
Candidate hypernym: gallery: a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited → 0
Candidate hypernym: gallantry: polite attentiveness to women → 0
Candidate hypernym: yield: an amount of a product → 0
Candidate hypernym: camera obscura: a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface → 0
Candidate hypernym: toasting: cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill → 0
Candidate hypernym: francis turbine: a type of hydroelectric turbine → 0
Candidate hypernym: water vascular system: system of fluid-filled tubes used by echinoderms in locomotion and feeding and respiration → 0
Candidate hypernym: reality: the quality possessed by something that is real → 0
Candidate hypernym: thallophyta: used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae; bacteria; fungi; lichens → 0