Body Senses Flashcards
Meissner’s corpuscle
Detect flutter and are rapidly adapting
Small receptive fields
Adapt the fastest
Best to detect vibration
Pacinian corpuscle
Large receptive fields
Adapt the fastest
Best to detect vibration
Free nerve endings
Can detect either pain or temperature
Person with normal vision?
Equilibrium ?
A person with normal vestibular functioning can maintain equilibrium (balance) without the assistance of vision
Sensory receptors in the skin ?
Sensory receptors in the skin are not distributed equally
a person’s ability to determine the location of skin that has been touched and the number of places the skin was touched is different for different body regions
Which segment has the most gray matter? White matter? Why?
Gray: sacral/ coccygeal
White: cervical
Cervical has nerves from all lower segments
As we go up higher more axons are carry
