Organ or Tissue Function
taste Audio
taste [ teyst ]
Subclass of:
Esthesia
Definitions related to taste perception:
  • (taste) Sense effected by the gustatory receptors in the tongue; primarily sweet, sour, salty and bitter.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (taste) The ability to detect chemicals through gustatory receptors in the mouth, including those on the TONGUE; the PALATE; the PHARYNX; and the EPIGLOTTIS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (gustation) The faculty of taste, distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (sensory perception of taste) The series of events required for an organism to receive a gustatory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Gustation involves the direct detection of chemical composition, usually through contact with chemoreceptor cells. This is a neurological process.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
  • Taste, the detection and identification by the sensory system of dissolved chemicals placed in contact with some part of an animal. Because the term taste is commonly associated with the familiar oral taste buds of vertebrates, many authorities prefer the term contact chemoreception, which has a...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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