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Exam III-SomatoSensory Receptors Flashcards

1
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What are the receptors for Smell, Taste, and pH?

A

ChemoReceptors

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What are the receptors for Light?

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PhotoReceptors

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What are the receptors for Temperature?

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Thermoreceptors

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What are the receptors for Pain?

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Nocieptors

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What are the receptors for touch, muscle length/force, auditory, and vestibular

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MechanoReceptors

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What is the translation of energy from external stimuli to an electrochemical signal?

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Receptor Potential

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What are the two structural types of receptors?

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Encapsulated- surrounded by multiple layers of epithelial tissue and Non encapsulated

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What are the two categories of adaptation?

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Slow and fast

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What are the TWO cell types that are NOT alpha-Beta innervated? What are their innervations?

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Free Nerve Endings (alpha-Delta & C Fibers) and Hair Receptors (alpha-Delta)

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What is the only receptor found on just hairy skin?

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Hair Receptor!

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What is the only receptor found on just glabrous skin?

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Meissner’s Corpuscle

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What are the only two purely slow receptors?

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Merkel’s & Ruffini

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What is the only rapid AND slow receptor?

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Free Nerve ending

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What are the three encapsulated receptor endings?

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Meissener’s, Pacininan, and Ruffini

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What is the process that helps localize a touch stimulus?

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Lateral Inhibition

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16
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What type of receptor has Free nerve endings, Riffini’s, Paciniform corpuscles, and ligament receptors?

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Joint Receptors

17
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What are the two types of fibers involved with the muscle spindle? What are their innervations?

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Nuclear Bag (Ia), and nuclear chain(II)

18
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Ia VS II: Which is the dynamic response? Which is the slow and steady?

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Ia: dynamic II: slow and steady

19
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What type of motor innervation fibers at in intrafusal muscles?

A

gamma motor neurons

20
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What type of sensory neuron is found in the aponeurosis of a muscle?

A

Golgi Tendon Organ

21
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What is a monosynaptic reflex loop? How is it tested by the doctor?

A

Deep tendon reflex.. tested by the ole hammer to the knee

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