receptor vs organ

organ vs receptor

receptor and organ both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
receptor	Yes	No	No	No
organ	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, organ is a hypernym of receptor; that is, organ is a word with a broader meaning than receptor:

receptor: an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
organ: a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

receptor (noun)	organ (noun)
an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation	wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response	(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
	a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
	a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
	a periodical that is published by a special interest group
	a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

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