ch 10 Flashcards
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machanorecpetors
touch, pressure
used in like feeling and hearing n stuff
chemoreceptors
dissolved chemicals
smell and taste
osmoreceptors
in toungue n shittttt
photoreceptors
light
phasic receptor
fast adapting when bind to stim, will adapt, and decrease firing
tonic receptor
slow adapting
phasic receptor will help us adapt
to change in condition
phasic receptor will help you
adjust and basically ignor the constant stim
tonic receptor example
pain
pain
noxious stimulation
discomfort caused by tissue injury
visceral pain
organ pain
diffuse, dull, hard to locate
deep somatic pain
arises from bones, joints, muscles, related structures
superficial somatic pain
from skin
referred pain
from convergence of nerual pathways in CNS
example of referred pain
heart attack pain in heart
appendix
how injured tissue stim pain fibers
injured tissues release chemicals to stim
bradykinin
most potent pain stimulus known
- Makes us aware of injury and activates cascade of
reactions that promote healing
* Histamine, prostaglandin, and serotonin also stimulate
nociceptors
endogenous opioids
internally made opium like substances
block pain receptors and stim pleasure
enkephalins
has 2 diff types
200X potency of morphine
type of endogenous opioid
Endorphins and dynorphins
- Larger analgesic neuropeptides
pain relieving endo opioids
vision controlled by what cranial nerve
II, optic
virtuous humor
jellow thingy that keeps all the shit in the eye together
iris
pigmented muscle, will constrict and dilate
lense
focus light on rentia
retina
photoreceptor cells, transmits info to brain
nervous tissure layer