receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛp.tə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛp.tɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsep.tə/
Forms: form: receptors
Etymology: From Middle English receptour, from Old French receptour or Latin receptōrius, from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”).
Senses: examples: text: In the target organ, the drug is recognised by ‘receptors’. These are large molecules, usually proteins, to which the drug binds tightly and with a high degree of specificity.
ref: 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 24:
text: White blood cells of the immune system, the gut and the spleen also have another type of cannabinoid receptor, known as CB2.
ref: 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A protein on a cell wall that binds with specific molecules so that they can be absorbed into the cell in order to control certain functions.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli.
examples: text: […] fewe that were there did spend the same daie abowte the searchinge out of sundrye that were receptors of ffelons, where we fownd a greate manye aswell in London, Westminster, Sowthwarke, as in all other places abowte the same.
ref: 1585, Fleetwood, in 1824, Henry Ellis, Original letters, illustrative of English history, page 297
text: The kind Receptors of the Fugitiues after the Detection.
ref: 1609, William Barlow, Answer to a nameless Catholic's censure, page 13:
text: An act […] Against pyrats, their assistors or abettors, out-traidors or receptors, against breakers of the admirall's arrestments and attachments against goods forbidden,
ref: 1660, Virginia statue, The Statutes at Large, Virginia, published 1809, page 538:
coordinate_terms: receiptor
resetter
glosses: One who receives something or someone; in particular, one who harbors a fugitive.
Hyponyms: acetylcholine receptor
adrenergic receptor
alpha-receptor
aquareceptor
beneceptor
cannabinoid receptor
chimeric antigen receptor
co-receptor
exteroceptor
Fc receptor
gasoreceptor
glucocorticoid receptor
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor
hygroreceptor
interoceptor
J receptor
juxtacapillary receptor
mechanoreceptorial
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
nociceptor
opioid receptor
orphan receptor
photoreceptor
proprioceptor
purinergic receptor
toll-like receptor
Derived terms: adrenoreceptor
angiotensin receptor blocker
aporeceptor
autoreceptor
bioreceptor
ceptor
chemoreceptor
continuous erythropoietin receptor activator
coreceptor
counterreceptor
electroreceptor
enteroreceptor
exteroreceptor
gasoreceptor
glycoreceptor
gravireceptor
heteroreceptor
holoreceptor
hydroreceptor
immunoreceptor
interreceptor
isoreceptor
magnetoreceptor
mechanoreceptor
metaboreceptor
minireceptor
multireceptor
nercept
neuroreceptor
neutroceptor
nonreceptor
osmoreceptor
perireceptor
phosphoreceptor
postreceptor
protoreceptor
pseudoreceptor
purinoceptor
radioreceptor
receptome
receptomic
receptomics
receptoral
receptorless
receptorome
sartan
selective androgen receptor modulator
thermohygroreceptor
thermoreceptor
xenoreceptor
Related terms: effector