Usage Note
Schmerzrezeptor (also Nozizeptor) detects potentially harmful stimuli and triggers the sensation of pain. Pain physiology is a major topic in neuroscience and medical education; the concept is explained in popular German science articles.
Examples
"Schmerzrezeptoren schützen den Körper, indem sie ihn vor Schäden warnen."
Natural Translation
Pain receptors protect the body by warning it of damage.
Literal Translation
Pain-receptors protect the body by they it from damages warn.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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