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What are somatic sensations?

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Arise from stimulation of sensory receptors embedded in the skin or subcutaneous layer

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Where are somatic sensations found?

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In mucous membranes of the mouth, vagina and Anus & in skeletal muscles, tendons and joints

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Which areas in the body have the highest density of somatic sensory receptors?

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Tip of tongue, lips and fingertips

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What are the 4 modalities of somatic sensation?

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  1. Tactile
  2. Thermal
  3. Pain
  4. Proprioceptive
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What are tactile sensations?

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Include touch, pressure, vibration, itch, tickle
(Touch)

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There are 2 types of rapidly adapting touch receptors. What are corpuscles of touch (or Meissner corpuscles)

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Touch receptors that are located in the dermal papillae of hairless skin.
Each corpuscle is an egg shaped mass of dendrites enclosed by a capsule of connective tissue.

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What are the sensations of corpuscles of touch receptors? Rapid or slow adapting receptors?

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Onset of touch and low frequency vibrations
Rapid

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Where are corpuscles of touch abundant in the body?

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Fingertips, hands, eyelids, tip of tongue, lips, nipples, soles, clitoris, tip of penis

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2nd type of touch receptors is hair root plexuses. Where are they found and the structure?

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Hairy skin.
Consist of free nerve endings wrapped around hair follicles
Detect movements on the skin that disturb hairs

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2 types of slowly adapting touch receptors what are they

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Type 1 cutaneous mechanoreceptors (tactile(merkel) discs)
Type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors ;Ruffini corpuscles

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What is the structure of tactile (merkel) discs ?

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Saucer shaped, flattened free nerve endings that make contact with tactile epithelial cells (merkel cells) on the stratum basale

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Plentiful in fingertips, hands, lips, external genitalia?

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Type 1 cutaneous mechanoreceptors

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Elongated encapsulated receptors located in the dermis, subcutaneous layer and other tissues of the body. Highly sensitive to skin stretching (such as a massage)

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Type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors (or Ruffini corpuscles)

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A sustained sensation that is felt over a larger area than touch, occurs with deeper deformation of the skin and subcutaneous layer?

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Pressure

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Which type of receptor consist inure to sensations of pressure?

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Type I and II mechanoreceptors
Able to respond to steady pressure stimulus because they are slowly adapting

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Where do sensations of vibration result from?

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Rapidly repetitive sensory signals from tactile receptors

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What are the receptors for vibration?

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Lamellated corpuscles and corpuscles of touch

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What consists of a nerve ending surrounded by a multilayered connective tissue that resembles a sliced onion?

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Lamellated corpuscle (or pacinian corpuscle)

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Where are Lamellated corpuscles found?

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In the dermis, subq layer and other body tissues

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Lamellated corpuscles respond to high or low frequency vibrations?

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High

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Corpuscles of touch respond to high or low frequency vibrations

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Low

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What does itch sensation result from?

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Stimulation of free nerve endings by certain chemicals, such as bradykinin (a kindin a potent vasodilator), histamine, or antigens in mosquito saliva injected from a bite

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Scratching usually alleviates itching by?

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Activating a pathway that blocks transmission of the itch signal through the spinal cord

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What are free nerve endings that have receptive fields about 1 mm in diameter on the skin surface?

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Thermoreceptors

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Cold receptors (one of the 2 distinct thermal sensations) are located where? And attached to what fibers?
Located in the stratum basale of the epidermis Attached to medium diameter myelinated A fibers although a few connect to small diameter unmyelinated C fibers
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Where are warm receptors located
In the dermis and are attached to small diameter unmyelinated C fibers
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Cold receptors (activated temp between 10 and 35) Warm receptors (temp between 30 and 45) What about temps below 10 and above 45? What receptors are stimulated?
Pain receptors
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What are nociceptors?
The receptors for pain Are free nerve endings found in every tissue except the brain
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What are the 2 types of pain?
Fast and slow
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Fast pain occurs rapidly usually within 0.1 second after stimulus applies. Because of how the nerve impulses propagate along which fibers?
Medium diameter myelinated A fibers
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Slow pain begins after a second or more after stimulus and gradually increases in intensity. Impulses for slow pain conduct along which fibers?
Small diameter unmyelinated C fibers
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Pain that arises from stimulation of receptors in the skin is called ?
Superficial somatic pain
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Stimulation of receptors in skeletal muscles, joints, tendons & fascia causes what type of pain?
Deep somatic pain
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Visceral pain?
Results from stimulation of nociceptors of visceral organs
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Referred pain?
In instances of visceral pain, the pain is felt in or just deep to the skin that overlies the stimulated organ or in a surface area far from the stimulated organ
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What allows us to recognize that parts of our body belong to us and allow us to know where our head and limbs are located and how they move
Proprioceptive sensation (or proprioception)
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Kinesthesia
Perception of body movement
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Proprioceptors also allow weight discrimination which is?
The ability to assess the weight of an object
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3 types of Proprioceptors?
Muscle spindles Tendon organs Joint kinesthetic receptors
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What are muscle spindles ?
Proprioceptors that monitor changes in the length of skeletal muscles and participate in stretch reflexes
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How does a muscle spindle respond to stretching a skeletal muscle not to vigoursly ?
Muscle tone Brain sets an overall level of muscle tone Which is the small degree of contraction present while muscle at rest
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Each muscle spindle consists of several slowly adapting nerve endings that wrap around 3-10 specialized muscle fibers. What are these called?
Intrafusal fibers
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In muscles that produced finely controlled movements (such as fingers or eyes) are muscle spindles plentiful or fewer?
Plentiful
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The only skeletal muscle that lacks spindles?
Tiny muscles of ear
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What is the main function of muscle spindles?
To measure muscle length - how much a muscle is being stretched
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Sudden or prolonged stretching of central areas of the inteafusal muscle stimulates what?
Sensory nerve endings The resulting nerve impulses propagate into the CNS Information from muscle spindles arrives quickly at the somatic sensory areas of cerebral cortex which allows conscious perceptions of limb positions and movements At the same time impulses from muscle spindle pass to cerebellum where input is used to coordinate muscle contractions
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Near the middle of intrafusal fibers muscle spindles contain motor neurons called?
Gamma motor neurons
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What do these gamma motor neurons do?
Terminate near both ends of the intrafusal fibers and adjust the tension in a muscle spindle to variations in the length of the muscle
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Surronding muscle sound also are ordinary skeletal muscle fibers called?
Extrafusal muscle fibers Supplied by large diameter a fibers called alpha motor neurons
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Where are the cell bodies of gamma and alpha motor neurons located?
In the anterior gray horn of the spinal cord (or in the brain stem for muscles in the head)
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What are tendon organs?
Slowly adapting receptors located at the junction of a tendon and a muscle
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What do tendon organs do when tendon reflexes are initiated?
Protect tendons and their associated muscles from damage due to excessive tension
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Each tendon organ consists of?
A thin capsule of connective tissue that encloses a few tendon fascicles (bundles of collagen fibers)
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When tension is applied to a muscle, the tendon organs generate nerve impulses that propagate into the CNS providing info about changes in muscle tension. The resulting tendon reflex decrease muscle tension by causing?
Muscle relaxation
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Joint kinesthetic receptors present where?
Within and around the articulate capsules of synovial joints

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