LAB 6: General and Special Senses Flashcards

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What are the 5 CUTANEOUS RECEPTORS?

A

1) free nerve endings
2) tactile discs
3) tactile corpuscle
4) lamellate corpuscle
5) Ruffini corpuscle

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What stimuli do FREE NERVE ENDINGS respond to?

A

-touch, pain, temperature

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3
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What stimuli do TACTILE DISCS respond to?

A

-fine touch, light pressure

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4
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What stimuli do TACTILE CORPUSCLES respond to?

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-fine touch, light pressure, especially eyelids, lips, fingertips and external genitalia

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