Chapter 13 Flashcards
provides links from and to world outside body
PNS
all neural structures outside brain in PNS
sensory receptors (afferent)
peripheral nerves
associated ganglia
motor endings (efferent)
respond to touch, pressure, vibration, and stretch
mechanoreceptors
sensitive to changes in temperature
thermoreceptors
respond to light energy (ex. retina)
photoreceptors
respond to chemicals (ex. smell, taste, change in blood chemistry)
chemoreceptors
sensitive to pain-causing stimuli (ex. extreme heat or cold, excessive pressure, inflammatory chemicals)
nociceptors
respond to stimuli arising outside body
exteroceptors
contain receptors in skin for touch, pressure, pain, and temperature
exteroceptors
most special sense organs
exteroceptors
respond to stimuli arising in internal viscera and blood vessels
interoceptors (visceroceptors)
sensitive to chemical changes, tissue stretch, and temperature change
interoceptors (visceroceptors)
sometimes cause discomfort but usually unaware of their workings
interoceptors (visceroceptors)
respond to stretch in skeletal muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments, and connective tissue covering bones and muscles
proprioceptors
inform brain of one’s movements
proprioceptors
classification by receptor structure
simple receptors for general senses
receptors for special senses
has tactile sensations (touch, pressure, stretch, vibration), temperature, pain, and muscle sense
simple receptors for general senses
has modified dendritic endings of sensory neurons
simple receptors for general senses
vision, hearing, equilibrium, smell, and taste
receptors for special senses
simple receptors of the general senses are either ______ or ______.
nonencapsulated (free) or encapsulated
abundant in epithelia and connective tissue
nonencapsulated (free) nerve endings
most nonmyelinated, small diameter group C fibers; distal endings have knoblike swellings
nonencapsulated (free) nerve endings
responds mostly to temperature and pain; some to pressure-induced tissue movement; itch
nonencapsulated (free) nerve endings
cold receptors (10-40 C) in superficial dermis heat receptors (32-48 C)
thermoreceptors
outside temperature range activates ___(1)___ and causes ___(2)___
(1) nociceptors
(2) pain
vanilloid receptor
player in detection of pain
for nociceptors
ion channel opened by heat, low pH, chemicals (ex. capsaicin)
vanilloid receptor
responds to pinching, chemicals from damaged tissue, capsaicin
nociceptors (pain)
light touch receptors
tactile (merkel) discs
hair follicle receptors
location: exteroceptors, interoceptors, propioceptors
stimulus type: thermoreceptors, chemoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, nociceptors
body location: most body tissues, dense connective tissues, epithelia
free nerve endings of sensory neurons
location: exteroceptors
stimulus type: mechanoreceptors; slowly adapting
body location: basal layer of epidermis
tactile (merkel) discs
location: exteroceptors
stimulus type: mechanoreceptors; rapidly adapting
body location: in and surrounding hair follicles
hair follicle receptors
all mechanoreceptors in connective tissue capsule
tactile (meissner’s) corpuscles
lamellar (pacinian) corpuscles
bulbous corpuscles (ruffini endings)