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

A

Free nerve endings

1
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What are all the functions of the skin?

A

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

2
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What sensory nerve is for hair specifically?

A

Root hair plexi

3
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What is Merkel’s disks?

A

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

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What is Meissner’s corpuscles

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

5
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What sensory nerve to text deep pressure and is located in the dermis

A

Pacinian corpuscles

6
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What sensory nerves detects cold and is located in the dermis?

A

Krause corpuscles

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What are Ruffini corpuscles?

A

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

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What is the somatic type of pain?

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

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

A

Referred pain

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What is the visceral type of pain?

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