General Sensation Flashcards
What receptor responds to internal stimuli, of the skeletal muscles, tendons/joints, ligaments, and connective tissue covering of bones and muscles?
Proprioceptors
What receptor/s react to stimuli arising within the body?
Interoceptors/ Visceroceptors
A proprioceptor that is found around skeletal muscle cells is called?
Muscle Spindle
What receptor reacts to stimuli in the external environment?
Exteroceptors
A proprioceptor that is found around tendons is called?
Golgi Tendon Organ
A sensory experience in which pain is perceived as arising in one area of the body when another area is receiving pain stimulus is called?
Referred Pain
Changes in the body or the external environment, “irritants” that cause sensory receptors to react are called?
Stimuli
The test in which calipers are used to distinguish when one sharp object or two are perceived as distance between the ends of the calipers are changed is called?
The two-point discrimination test
Inadequate oxygenation of the heart muscle resulting in pain being referred to the chest wall and left shoulder is called?
Angina Pectoralis
Name one of the special senses.
Special senses: Vision/ hearing/ smell/ equilibrium/ taste (name one)
Name one stimuli that general sense receptors react to.
General senses: Heat/ touch/ pain/ cold/ vibration/ stretch/ pressure/ changes in body position (name one)
The Reflux of gastric juice into the esophagus causing a sensation of intense discomfort in the thorax is called?
Heartburn
What sensory receptors change environmental stimuli into afferent nerve impulses?
Transducers
The ability to determine which portion of skin has been touched is called?
Tactile Localization
The applying of stimulus for longer and longer periods of time and loss of conscious awareness of that stimulus is called?
Adaptation
