"beneceptor" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "nociceptor"
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          "ref": "1929, The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, page 310",
          "text": "He divides receptors into three classes— \"nociceptors\", such as the nerve-endings for pain and hunger, \"beneceptors\", such as the nerve-endings stimulated when sugar melts on the tongue, and \"neutroceptors\", such as the nerve-endings in the eye and ear, called \" neutroceptors \" because they receive more or less indiscriminately both pleasant and unpleasant messages.",
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          "ref": "1973, Behaviorism, page 42",
          "text": "The “beneceptors,” “nociceptors,” and \"neutroceptors” generally signalled stimuli that were, respectively, beneficial, harmful, or neutral as regards the organism or its species.",
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        "A sensory receptor that sends pleasurable or beneficial signals."
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          "sensory",
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          "receptor",
          "receptor"
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          "pleasurable",
          "pleasurable"
        ],
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          "beneficial",
          "beneficial"
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          "signal",
          "signal"
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        "(anatomy) A sensory receptor that sends pleasurable or beneficial signals."
      ],
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  "word": "beneceptor"
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        "(anatomy) A sensory receptor that sends pleasurable or beneficial signals."
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