Noun: receptor
| Singular | receptor |
| Plural | receptors |
Sample Sentences
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In the target organ, the drug is recognised by ‘receptors’. These are large molecules, usually proteins, to which the drug binds tightly and with a high degree of specificity. [2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 24:]
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White blood cells of the immune system, the gut and the spleen also have another type of cannabinoid receptor, known as CB2. [2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine:]
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[…] fewe that were there did spend the same daie abowte the searchinge out of sundrye that were receptors of ffelons, where we fownd a greate manye aswell in London, Westminster, Sowthwarke, as in all other places abowte the same. [1585, Fleetwood, in 1824, Henry Ellis, Original letters, illustrative of English history, page 297]
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The kind Receptors of the Fugitiues after the Detection. [1609, William Barlow, Answer to a nameless Catholic's censure, page 13:]
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An act […] Against pyrats, their assistors or abettors, out-traidors or receptors, against breakers of the admirall's arrestments and attachments against goods forbidden, [1660, Virginia statue, The Statutes at Large, Virginia, published 1809, page 538:]
Nouns inflected like receptor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English receptour, from Old French receptour or Latin receptōrius, from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to hold”). See: Middle English Nouns '
receptour', Latin Nouns '
receptōrius'.
Verbs referencing "receptor"
Finnish Nouns
reseptori.