MECHANORECEPTOR Synonyms

• a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

• a warrant to take someone into custody

• anything with restorative powers

• a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

• the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

• mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

• an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

• the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

• the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

• an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

• a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities

• an exploratory action or expedition

• an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• examine physically with or as if with a probe

• a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response

• an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation

• any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner

• an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another