chemoreception
noun
chemoreception is a noun meaning “the physiological sensory response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-R-E-C-E-P-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chemoreception is chemoreceptions.
What does chemoreception mean?
noun
- 1
the physiological sensory response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chemoreception?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-chemoreception.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chemoreception
- chemoreceptions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chemoreception?
Chemoreception appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Chemoreception in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense physiological response:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | quimiorrecepção |
| Spanish | quimiorrecepción |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chemoreception come from?
From chemo- + reception.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).