Usage Note
Wärmerezeptor detects warmth and heat in the skin, paired with Kälterezeptor (cold receptor). Discussion of how capsaicin (from chillies) stimulates heat receptors is popular in German popular science writing.
Examples
"Capsaicin täuscht die Wärmerezeptoren vor, als würde die Haut verbrennen."
Natural Translation
Capsaicin fools the heat receptors into thinking the skin is burning.
Literal Translation
Capsaicin deceives the heat-receptors before, as if the skin were burning.
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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