stretch receptor

noun Anatomy, Physiology.

muscle spindle.

Origin of stretch receptor

First recorded in 1935–40

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stretch receptor in Medicine

stretch receptor

n.

A sensory receptor in a muscle that responds to the stretching of tissue.

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