Chap 1 A&P Flashcards
Conscious or subconscious awareness of changes in the external or internal enviroment
Sensation
Smell, taste, vision, hearing, equilibrium
Special senses
Two categories of general senses
Somatic
Visceral
Senses that include tactile, thermal, pain, and proprioceptive sensations
Somatic senses
Senses that provide sensations from internal organs
Visceral senses
Four conditions that must be satisfied for a sensation to occur
- Stimulus
- Sensory receptor converts stimulus to an electrical signal
- Nerve pathway conducts it to the brain
- Brain translates the nerve impulse into a sensation
Conscious awareness and interpretation of sensations
Perception
Perceptions are primarily a function of which part of the brain?
Cerebral cortex
Decrease in the strength of a sensation during prolonged exposure to a stimulus
Adaption
Detect mechanical deformation of adjacent cells
Mechanoreceptors
Detect changes in temperature
Thermoreceptors
Detect Pain
Nociceptors
Detect light
Photoreceptors
Detect the presence of chemicals in solution
Chemoreceptors
Detect the osmotic pressure of fluids
Osmoreceptors
Sensations arise from stimulation of sensory receptors in the skin, mucous membranes, muscles, tendons, and joints
Somatic sensations
How are sensory receptors for somatic sensations distributed over the body?
Widely and unevenly
Touch, pressure, vibration, itch and tickle
Tactile
Most tactile sensation receptors are located in the:
Skin and subcutaneous tissue
Warm, cold
Thermal
Thermal receptors are located in the:
Epidermis and dermis
Pain receptors are located in virtually all tissues of the body, except for?
The brain
What detects most tactile sensations?
Mechanoreceptors (superficial and deep dermal layers)
What temperatures activates cold receptors located in the epidermis?
10-40C (50-105F)
What temperatures activate warm receptors in the dermis?
32-48C (90-118F)
Temperatures below 10C (50F) and above 48C (118F) stimulates what receptors?
Nociceptors (Pain)
Nociceptors respond to:
Extreme temperatures
Inadequate blood flow to an organ
Excessive stretching of an organ
What type of pain is acute, sharp, pricking pain?
Fast (localized pain)
What type of pain is chronic, aching, burning, or throbbing?
Slow pain
Proprioceptors in the skeletal muscles
Muscle spindles
Proprioceptors in the tendons
Tendon organs
Proprioceptors around the synovial joints
Joint kinesthetic receptors
Proprioceptors of the inner ears
Hair cells
Kinesthetic sense or the perception of body movements
Proprioception
What allows us to estimate the weight of objects and determine the muscular effort needed to perform a task?
Proprioceptive sensations
Sense of smell
Olfaction
What type of sense is smell?
Chemical (based on changing of the environment)
How many receptors are located in the olfactory epithelium?
10-100 million
Where is the nasal epithelium in conjunction with the cribriform plate?
Inferior surface
Three types of cells in the olfactory epithelium
Receptor cells
Supporting cells
Basal cells
In order to be smelled, substances must be:
Dissolved
What serves has a solvent for the inhaled odorants?
Mucus secreted by the olfactory glands
Adaption to odors occurs quickly, and the threshold of smell is:
Low
Olfactory tract will project to which locations of the brain?
- Cerebral cortex (frontal & temporal lobe)
2. Limbic system (emotional response to odors)
Sense of taste
Gustation
Five primary tastes
Salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami
Gustatory receptor cells are located mainly in:
Taste buds on the surface of the tongue
Taste buds are found in raised bumps on the tongue called:
Fungiform papillae
Each taste bud is an oval body, consisting of three kinds of epithelial cells
Supporting cells
Gustatory receptor cells
Basal cells
To be tasted, substances must be:
Dissolved
Once dissolved tastants enter taste pores and make contact with:
Gustatory hairs
Adaption to taste occurs quickly and the threshold for taste:
Varies for each of the primary tastes
Carries taste information from the anterior 2/3 of the tongue
CN VII (Facial)