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| respond to touch, pressure, vibration, stretch and itch |
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sensitive to changes in temperature
cold receptors (10-40 degrees C)
heat receptors (32-48 degrees C) |
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| respond to light energy (ex: retina) |
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| respond to chemicals (smell, taste, changes in blood chemistry) |
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| sensitve to pain-causing stimuli (extreme heat or cold, excessive pressure, inflammatory chemicals) |
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Respond to stimuli outside of the body
Receptors in the skin for touch, pressure, pain, and temperature
Most special sense organs |
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Repond to stimuli arising in internal viscera and blood vessels
Sensitve to chemical changes, tissue stretch, and temperature changes |
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| Respond to stretch in skeletal muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments, and connective tissue coverings of bones and muscles |
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| Vision, hearing, equilibrium, smell, and taste |
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| touch, pressure, stretch, and vibration |
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| loose connective tissue that encloses axons and their myelin sheaths |
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| coarse connective tissue that bundles fibers into fascicles |
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| tough fibrous sheath around a nerve |
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contain neuron cell bodies assiciated with nerves
Dorsal (sensory, somatic)
Autonomic (motor, visceral) |
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12 pairs associated with the brain
Most are mixed in function
Each are identified by a number and a name
"On Occasion, Our Trusty Truck Acts Funny- Very Good Vehicle AnyHow" |
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| contain sensory (afferent) fibers from sensory neurons in the dorsal root ganglia |
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formed by ventral rami of C1-C4
innervates skin and muscles of the neck, ear, back of head and shoulders |
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| major motor and semsory nerve of the diaphragm |
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| innervates the deltoid, teres minor, and skin and joint capsule of the shoulder |
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| innervates the biceps brachii and brachialis and skin of lateral forearm |
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| innervates the skin, most flexors and pronators in the forearm, and some intrinsic muscles of the hand |
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Arises from L1-L4
Innervates the thigh, abdominal wall, and psoas muscle |
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| innervates quadriceps and skin of anterior thigh and medial surface of leg |
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| passes through obturator foramen to innervate adductor muscles |
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Arises from L5-S4
Serves the buttock, lower limbs pelvic structures, and perineum |
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longest and thickest nerve of the body
innervates the hamstring muscles, adductor muscles, and most muscles in the leg and foot |
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| the area of skin innervated by the cutaneous branches of a single spinal nerve |
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