Lecture 2.3: Touch Flashcards
1
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Slowly-adapting mechanoreceptors
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Merkel and ruffini
2
Q
Radiply-adapapting mechanoreceptors
A
Meissner and Pacinian
3
Q
Merkel complexes respond to
A
indentation
4
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Ruffini endings respond to
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have a sustained response to skin movement
5
Q
Meissner receptors respond to
A
have a transient response to skin movement
6
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Pacinian receptors respond to
A
have a transient response to vibration
7
Q
Which mechanoreceptors have a larger receptive field?
A
Ruffini and Pacinian
8
Q
Mechanosensory afferents from the upper body synapse at
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cuneate nucleus in the caudal medulla
9
Q
Mechanosensory afferents from lower body synapse at
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gracile nucleus in the caudal medulla
10
Q
Second neuron in the mechanosensory pathway synapses in the
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thalamus
