Skin Functions

Question 0

What sensory nerve to detect pain and can reach up to the epidermis?

Answer 0

Free nerve endings

Question 1

What are all the functions of the skin?

Answer 1

To be a protective barrier for your body and to keep water inside; biggest detector of changes-pain, touch, temperature and pressure.

Question 2

What sensory nerve is for hair specifically?

Answer 2

Root hair plexi

Question 3

What is Merkel’s disks?

Answer 3

Sensory nerves that detect very light touch; located in the epidermis.

Question 4

What is Meissner’s corpuscles

Answer 4

Sensory nerves that detect very light touch; are located just below the epidermis.

Question 5

What sensory nerve to text deep pressure and is located in the dermis

Answer 5

Pacinian corpuscles

Question 6

What sensory nerves detects cold and is located in the dermis?

Answer 6

Krause corpuscles

Question 7

What are Ruffini corpuscles?

Answer 7

Sensory nerves that detect heat and are located in the dermis; or short and fat.

Question 8

What is the somatic type of pain?

Answer 8

Pain in the skin, muscles, bones, or ligaments; can be superficial (for skin) or deep (for muscles and ligaments).

Question 9

What is pain that is transferred and spread throughout the body for the brain to deal and process with extreme pain?

Answer 9

Referred pain

Question 10

What is the visceral type of pain?

Answer 10

Pain that is located within internal organs and even cardiac muscle.