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CHEMORECEPTORS

"CHEMORECEPTORS" is a plural of: chemoreceptor.

Specialty Definition: CHEMORECEPTORS

Domain	Definition
Health	Cells specialized to detect chemical substances and relay that information centrally in the nervous system. Chemoreceptors may monitor external stimuli, as in taste and olfaction, or internal stimuli, such as the concentrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: CHEMORECEPTORS

English words defined with "CHEMORECEPTORS": chemoreceptive. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CHEMORECEPTORS": Almitrine ♦ Para-Aortic Bodies. (references)

Commercial Usage: CHEMORECEPTORS

Domain	Title
Books	Chemoreceptors and Reflexes in Breathing: Cellular and Molecular Aspects: The Julius H. Comroe Memorial Symposium Volume (reference) Peripheral Arterial Chemoreceptors and Respiratory-Cardiovascular Integration (Monographs of the Physiological Society, 46) (reference) The Peripheral arterial chemoreceptors : proceedings of an international workshop (reference) The proceedings of the Wates Foundation symposium on arterial chemoreceptors, held in Oxford on 18-21 July 1966 (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: CHEMORECEPTORS

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The chemoreceptors that are sensitive to oxygen concentration are located in the large arteries in the neck in the carotid bodies. (references)
		The brain's respiratory centers in turn are controlled by chemoreceptors, special cells that are sensitive to the amounts of carbon dioxide or oxygen in the blood. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: CHEMORECEPTORS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
chemoreceptors	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: CHEMORECEPTORS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-h-m-o-o-p-r-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: chemoreceptor.
	-3 letters: spherometer, thermoscope.
	-4 letters: crocheters, ectomorphs, rheometers, threescore.
	-5 letters: comethers, crocheter, ecosphere, ectomeres, ectomorph, homeports, orometers, poechores, preerects, promoters, prosector, receptors, recompose, respecter, retempers, rheometer, screecher, sheepcote, temperers, threesome, torcheres.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-h-m-o-o-p-r-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: mechanoreceptors.
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Alternative Orthography: CHEMORECEPTORS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0048 0045 004D 004F 0052 0045 0043 0045 0050 0054 004F 0052 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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