External receptors - external receptors

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[Type of sensation]
Table 1 shows the classification of receptors according to the type of stimulus. Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) also divided receptors into exteroceptors (receptors that respond to stimuli from outside the body) and interoceptors (receptors that respond to stimuli from within the body) based on the relationship between receptors and stimuli (1926). The former were further divided into teleceptors (receptors that respond to stimuli emitted from places far away from the body, such as visual, auditory, and olfactory receptors) and tangoceptors (receptors for taste and those in the skin and mucous membranes), and the latter into proprioceptors (receptors for the position of the body such as muscles, tendons, joints, and labyrinths, and for the movement of the limbs) and visceroceptors (receptors in the internal organs).

*Some of the terminology that refers to "external receptors" is listed below.

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［感覚の種類］
　受容器を適当刺激の種類により分類すると表1のようになる。またシェリントンCharles Scott Sherrington(1857‐1952)は，受容器と刺激の関係から受容器を外部受容器exteroceptor(体外からの刺激に反応する受容器)と内部受容器interoceptor(身体内部からの刺激に反応する)とに分けた(1926)。前者は，さらに遠隔受容器teleceptor(身体より遠く離れたところから発せられる刺激に反応するもの，視覚，聴覚，嗅覚の受容器)と接触受容器tangoceptor(味覚や皮膚粘膜にある受容器)に，後者は固有受容器proprioceptor(筋肉，腱関節，迷路などの身体の位置や，四肢の運動の受容器)と内臓受容器visceroceptor(内臓にある受容器)に分けた。…

※「外部受容器」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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