chemoreception

[kee-moh-ri-sep-shuhn, kem-oh-]

noun

1. the physiological response to chemical stimuli.

Other Word Forms

• chemoreceptive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of chemoreception¹

First recorded in 1915–20; chemo- + reception

Example Sentences

But according to the poster abstract for the study, presented at the 2003 meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, the average weight loss was 5.6 pounds.

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At a meeting earlier this year of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Ben-Shahar even hosted a symposium entirely devoted to sensory receptors that crop up in unexpected places.

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