Sensory Flashcards
(129 cards)
pain
Light touch
Pressure
Temperature
Proprioception
General senses
Pain and temperature
naked nerve endings
General senses
Merkeis disks; naked, nerve endings around hair follicles; Meissner corpuscles;rufflins corpuscles; end butts
light touch
General senses
Pacinian corpuscles
pressure
General senses
Gogi tendon organs; muscle spindles; receptors similar to meissner’s corpuscle’s in joints
Muscles and joints*
Propriception
General senses
taste
Smell
Sight
Hearing
Balance
Special senses
Taste buds
special senses taste
Olfactory epithelium
Special senses smell
Retina
special senses sight
Organ of Corti
Special senses hearing
Crista ampularis in the semicircular canals; maculae in the utricle in saccule
Special senses balance
activated by mechanical stimuli, such as touch or pressure
Mechanoreceptors
Activated by chemicals in the blood, food, or air
Chemoreceptors
activate by heat or cold
Thermoreceptors
Activated by light
Photoreceptors
Activated By painful stimuli
Nocicreceptors
what are the two free nerve ending receptors?
Thermoreceptors and nociceptors
associated with many condition
Most common reason that people seek medical attention
Protective mechanism
Can be used to aid diagnosis
Subjective feeling
Pain
perception of pain in the level at which it is sensed
Can be influenced by effective, behavior, cognitive, sensory, and physiological factors
Very subjective
Pain threshold
——-pain can delay, healing, stimulate the stress response, and result in pain tolerance
Unrelieved pain
Short term injury, with sudden onset. Usually due to injury.
Acute pain
Long-term response to injury, that has damaged tissues. Usually longer than 3 to 6 months.
Chronic pain
Always have patient point to where the pain is
Somatic pain
Due to swelling, pushing out on external wall
Visceral pain