cutaneous receptors Flashcards
1
Q
Meissner’s corpuscles
A
light touch
vibration
2
Q
Merkel’s disks
A
pressure
3
Q
Pacinian corpuscles
A
vibration
4
Q
Ruffini’s ending
A
stretch
5
Q
hyperaglesia
A
increased pain in response to a nociceptive stimulus
6
Q
spontaneous pain
A
pain unrelated to external stimulus
7
Q
allodynia
A
pain that is caused by something that normally wouldn’t cause pain
8
Q
temporal summation
A
pain that increased due to repeated stimulus
