Both Uses of
receptive
in
I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior
- I felt numbness more than pain because my nerve receptors had overloaded.†
p. 143.1
- Turned out I was in the 1 percent of people whose receptor for morphine doesn't make the pain go away.†
p. 148.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(receptive) open to arguments, ideas, or change
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, receptive can mean that something is capable of receiving something else. In that instance, the thing that receives might be called a receptor as when referring to a molecule that receives and responds to a neurotransmitter.