Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

Chemoreceptor Cells  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Cells specialized to detect chemical substances and relay that information centrally in the nervous system. Chemoreceptor cells may monitor external stimuli, as in TASTE and OLFACTION, or internal stimuli, such as the concentrations of OXYGEN and CARBON DIOXIDE in the blood.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Chemoreceptive Cells

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-B5N4H43W-D

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 7/9/13