Crossword-Solution: RECEPTORS 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Molecules that respond to stimuli 1 answer
Sensory system components 1 answer
Nerve endings 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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CEEMZA
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eruption
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Sentences with RECEPTORS (5)

That being said, most would also concede that some hacker traits coincide with indicators for ADD and AS - the status of caffeeine as a hacker beverage of choice may be connected to the fact that it bonds to the same neural receptors as Ritalin, the drug most commonly prescribed for ADD.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002
All within it were the myriads of tiny crystalline points that we had grown to know were the receptors of some strange sense of sight.
The Metal Monster A. Merritt 2002
Hormonal discriminatory passions ensue, dopamine hits the pleasure receptors of the brain, and make him an addict for a hormonal pleasure with her.” “Is this love? Is this all that we are? Love is the best part of us and yet it is as this? I can’t believe that,” retorted Jatupon.
Corpus of a Siam Mosquito Steven Sills 2002
The range of intermediate wave receptors is such that they will receive amateur, broadcasting, ship and shore Navy, commercial, Arlington's time and all other stations using _spark telegraph damped waves_ or _arc_ or _vacuum tube telephone continuous waves_ but not _continuous wave telegraph signals_, unless these have been broken up into groups at the transmitting station.
The Radio Amateur's Hand Book A. Frederick Collins 2004
Now while this extra tube is used as a generator of oscillations these are, of course, very weak and hence a detector tube cannot be used to generate oscillations that are useful for other purposes than heterodyne receptors and measurements.
The Radio Amateur's Hand Book A. Frederick Collins 2004

Quotes with RECEPTORS (3)

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.
James W. Sire
It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it is, as much a part and product of life as wine and bread. Taken all in al, the sky is a miraculous achievement. It works, and for what it is designed to accomplish it is as infallible as anything in nature. I doubt whether any of us could think of a way to improve on it, beyond maybe shifting a local cloud from here to there on occasion. The word 'chance' does not serve to acc…
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The idea that damage has to be pain is mistaken. We feel pain because we have specific types of receptors called nociceptors which are programmed to respond to pain, not to touch. People can have genetic malfunctions where they feel pressure but never feel pain because they don't have pain receptors.
Daniel Chamovitz What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
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Appears in: LAT, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2007–2024).