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S: (n) sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation)

S: (n) lateral line, lateral line organ (sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water)
S: (n) interoceptor, enteroceptor (any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body)
S: (n) exteroceptor (any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body)
S: (n) third eye, pineal eye (a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles)
S: (n) baroreceptor (a sensory receptor that responds to pressure)
S: (n) chemoreceptor (a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli)
S: (n) thermoreceptor (a sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold)
S: (n) eye, oculus, optic (the organ of sight)
S: (n) ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)
S: (n) organ of hearing (the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound)
S: (n) inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth (a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium)
S: (n) semicircular canal (one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium)
S: (n) stretch receptor (a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue)

S: (n) papilla (a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell) "the papillae of the tongue"

S: (n) auditory system (the sensory system for hearing)
S: (n) visual system (the sensory system for vision)
S: (n) vestibular apparatus, vestibular system (organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium)

S: (n) system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts) "the body has a system of organs for digestion"