Lecutre 3 Flashcards
mechanoreceptor expanded tip endings
merkel’s discs
include both free and encapsulated endings receiving skin tactile sensidbility
mechanoreceptors
mechanoreceptors spray endings
ruffini’s corpuscles
Name the two specific mechanoreceptors which feature encapsulated endings:
meissner’s corpuscles kraus corpuscles
mechanoreceptors hearing
sound receptors of cochlea
mechanoreceptors with encapsulated endings, responsible for sensitivity to pressure and vibrations
pacinian corpuscles
mechanoreceptors equilibrium
vestivular receptors
mechanorepectors arterial pressure
baroreceptors
cold and warm receptors
thermoreceptors
free nerve endings responding to pain
nociceptors
include rods and cones of the eye for vision
electromagnetic receptors
taste, smell, arterial oxygen, osmolarity, blood CO2, Blood glucose, amino acids, fatty acids
chemoreceptors
each type of receptor is highly sensitive to one type of stimulus and is almost nonresponsive to toher types
differential sensitiivty
refers to each of the principal types of sensation
modality
adaption of receptors
-all sensory receptors adapt either partially or completly to any constant stiumuls after a period of time -some receptors adapt to a far greater extent than others
the specificity of nerve fibers for transmitting only on modality of sensation
Labeled Line Principle
characteristics of tonic receptors
-slow adapting -detect continous stimulus strength -transmit impulses as long as stimulus is present
Types of tonic receptors
muscle spindles golgi tendon organs macula and vestibular receptors baroreceptors chemoreceptors
characteristics of phasic receptors
rapidly adapting do no transmit a continuous signal stiumlated only when stimulus strength changes transmit informaiton regarding rate of change
Type A fibers
further subdivided into, alpha, gamma, beta, delta lg and medium sized myelinated fibers of spinal nerves
Type C
small, unmyelinated fibers conduct signals at low velocity make up more than half of all sensory fibers in most peripheral nerves and all post ganglionic autonomic fibers
fibers from annulospiral endings of muscle spindles
Group Ia (Type Aalpha fibers)
Fibers from golgi tendon organs
Group Ib (Type Aalpha fibers)
from cutaneous tactile receptors and flower spray
group II ( type Abeta, gamma fibers)
carry temp, crude touch, and pricking pain
group III (type A delta fibers)
carry pain, itch temperature, and crude tough
group IV (type C fibers)
Temporal summation
-increase signal strength by increasing frquencey of nerve impulses in each fiber
Explain/describe the concept of Spatial summation
increasing signal strenth in transmittted by using progressively greater number of fibers -entire cluster of nerve endings from one pain fiber covers an area of skin referred to as the receptor field for that fiber -number of endings is lg in center of field buy is reduced in periphery -nerve endings from one pain fiber overlap those of other pain fibers
stimulatory field of nueronal pool
-stimuatled by each incoming nerve fiber -terminals for each input fiber lie on the nearest neuron in its field - fewer terminals for each input fiber lie on neurons further away
give examples of a neuronal pool
cerebral cortex basal nuclei thalmaic nuclei cerebellum mesencephalon pons medulla gray matter of spinal cord