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-one of the General Senses
-Provide sensory information about the body and the environment, including:
touch
pressure
temperature
proprioception
pain |
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-one of the General Senses
-Provide information about various internal organs, consist primarily of pain and pressure. |
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– Respond mechanical stimuli, such as compression, bending, or stretching of cells.
Touch, pressure, vibration, proprioception, hearing, equilibrium, blood pressure |
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– Respond to chemicals that become attached to receptors on their membranes.
Smell and taste depend on chemoreceptors. |
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| – Respond to changes in temperature at the site of the receptor and are necessary for the sense of temperature. |
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| – Respond to light striking the receptor cells and are necessary for vision. |
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| Nociceptors or Pain Receptors |
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| – Respond to painful mechanical, chemical, or thermal stimuli. |
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| Exteroceptors (Cutaneous receptor) |
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| – Are associated with the skin. Provide information about the external environment Sensitive to stimuli outside the body and transmit sensations of hearing, vision, smell, taste, touch, pressure, vibration, temperature, and pain. |
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– Are associated with the visceral or organs.
Provide information about the internal environment
These sensations arise from within the body and often do not reach conscious perception.
Occasionally, may be felt as pain or pressure. |
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– Are associated with joints, tendons, and other connective tissues.
Provide information about body position and movement |
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| 8 sensory nerve endings in the skin: |
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1. Free Nerve ending
2. Merkel’s disk
3. Hair follicle receptor
4. Pacinian corpuscle
5. Meissner’s corpuscle
6. Ruffini’s end organ
7. Muscle spindle
8. Golgi tendon organ |
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| – Are sensory receptors cells that have axons that conduct action potential in response to the receptor potential. |
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| – Are sensory receptor cells that have no axons and the receptor potentials produced in those cells do not result in action potentials |
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| rapidly adapting receptors |
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| associated with pressure, touch, and smell |
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| slowly adapting receptors |
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| monitor stimuli associated with pain, body position, and chemical composition of the blood |
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| is a movement disorder which consists of effects including diminished voluntary movements and the presence of involuntary movements, similar to tics or choreia |
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| in many instances of visceral pain, the pain is felt in or just deep to the skin that overlies the stimulated organ |
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-refers to lack or loss of memory
-it is a total or partial inability to remember past experiences |
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include the sensory modalities of:
smell
taste
vision
hearing
equilibrium or balance |
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