A&P Chapter 10 Flashcards
________ that allow us to respond to stimuli such as touch, pressure, temperature, and pain?
Sensory receptors
The senses are often classified as either?
General or special senses
The _______ are those detected by simple microscopic receptors distributed though the body skin, muscles, tendons, joints, and other internal organs of the body.
General senses
The ___________ are those detected by the receptors that are grouped in specific areas and associated with complex structures that facilitate these senses.
(Smell, taste, vision, hearing, and equilibrium)
Special senses
What is encapsulated or uncapsulated?
Free of or naked of any such covering
What’s is sensitive to change in intensity or color of light as in vision
Photoreceptors
What are sensitive to presence of certain chemicals such as in taste or smell?
Chemoreceptors
What is sensitive to physical injury
Pain receptors
What is sensitive to any changes in temperature
Thermoreceptos
What is sensitive to mechanical stimuli that change their position or shape
Mechanoreceptor
The eye has what receptor?
Photoreceptors
The ear is a
Mechanoreceptor
The nose is a
Chemoreceptors
Taste buds are a ?
Chemoreceptors
Touch receptors are distributed closely together over the finger prints by ?
2-8 mm appart
What are the palm receptors appart?
8-12
The back of the torso is distributed
40-80 mm
The difference in which kind of stimuli is detected is called ____ of the sensation
Mode
Some of the general sensory receptors found near the point of junction between tendons and muscles and other found deep within the skeleton muscle tissue are called ?
Proprioceptors
What detects the color and intensity of light in our external environment
Vision
An eye injury is considered as?
A medical emergency
The eyeball is a fluid filled sphere having a wall of what three layers
1) fibrous
2) vascular
3) inner layer
What is in the fibrous layer of the eye?
- sclera
- cornea
What is in the vascular layer of the eye?
- choroid
- ciliary
- iris
- lens
What is in the inner layer of the eye?
- retina
- optic nerve
- retinal blood vessel
The white of the eye is part of the fibrous layer called the ?
Sclera
What is the transparent circle on the anterior of the fibrous layer
The cornea
Inflammation of the cornea is called
Keratitis