Definition of "chemoreception" []

• The physiological response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus. (noun)

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• "For his doctorate he studied how chemoreception mediates gregarious settlement of barnacles."
• "Ionotropic and metabotropic mechanisms in chemoreception: 'chance or design'?"
• "Some tardigrades have light-sensitive eye spots and anterior cirri for chemoreception."