SENSE ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sense organ mean? 

• SENSE ORGAN (noun)
  The noun SENSE ORGAN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SENSE ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSE ORGAN (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

receptor; sense organ; sensory receptor

Hypernyms ("sense organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Meronyms (parts of "sense organ"):

papilla (a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sense organ"):

lateral line; lateral line organ (sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water)

enteroceptor; interoceptor (any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body)

exteroceptor (any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body)

pineal eye; third eye (a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles)

baroreceptor (a sensory receptor that responds to pressure)

chemoreceptor (a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli)

thermoreceptor (a sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold)

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)

organ of hearing (the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound)

inner ear; internal ear; labyrinth (a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium)

semicircular canal (one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium)

stretch receptor (a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue)

Holonyms ("sense organ" is a part of...):

sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)

 Context examples 

A sense organ needed for the detection of sound and for establishing balance.

(Ear, NCI Thesaurus)

Any living organism that typically synthesizes its food from inorganic substances, possesses cellulose cell walls, responds slowly and often permanently to a stimulus, lacks specialized sense organs and nervous system, and has no powers of locomotion.

(Plant, NCI Thesaurus)