General Senses (BIO 181-201)

Question 1

Somatic

Answer 1

pressure, pain, ect.

Question 2

Visceral

Answer 2

Senses in organs
all over body
not consciously perceived

Question 3

Special Senses

Answer 3

senses in local areas (specific structures)
taste and smell
(can’t smell with hand, only with nose)

Question 4

nociceptors

Answer 4

respond to pain

Question 5

mechanoreceptors

Answer 5

pressure vibration

Question 6

tactile receptors

Answer 6

a lot of them

rapid or slow adapting

Question 7

free nerve endings

Answer 7

somatic
chemical stimulation
pressure
temperature changes
trauma

Question 8

root hair plexus

Answer 8

visceral

monitor distortion of hair and movement across body surface

Question 9

tactile corpuscles

Answer 9

visceral
fine touch
pressure
low frequency vibration
eyelids, lips, fingertips, nipples, external genitalia

Question 10

lamellated corpuscles

Answer 10

deep pressure
visceral
pulsing and high frequency
fast adapting receptors

Question 11

Ruffini Corpuscles

Answer 11

somatic
pressure and distortion of skin
deep reticular dermis

Question 12

proprioceptors

Answer 12

• monitor position of joints and muscles

- most structurally and functionally complex general sensory receptors

Question 13

Golgi Tendon Organs

Answer 13

• somatic
• stimulated by tension
• located at junction between skeletal muscle and its tendon

Question 14

chemoreceptors

Answer 14

respond only to water soluble and lipid soluble substances