sensory receptors Flashcards
1
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respond to physical shape changes (touch and pressure, golgi tendon organs)
A
mechanoreceptors
2
Q
respond to chemicals (taste buds, olfactory receptors, CO2 receptors)
A
chemoreceptors
3
Q
pain receptors (response to chem released during injury-cytokines- or direct stimulus
A
nociceptors
4
Q
respond to temp
A
thermoreceptors
5
Q
respond to light and Em waves (rods and cones)
A
photoreceptors