Ppts 4 Pain & Senses Flashcards
Pain is _______(special or general) sense.
General
Name 4 special senses…
Vision
Hearing
Taste
Olfaction (smell)
What special structure does a special sense need?
Receptor
What do sensory receptors do? (Function)
Convert different forms of energy into nerve impulses
Why do we have different sensory perceptions?
Because differences in nerve pathways
Optic nerve impulses are interpreted by brain as light
4 different sensory receptors
Associated with touch, tissue damage, light, dissolved chemicals
Mechanoreceptors
Nociceptors
Photoreceptors
Chemoreceptors
What are cutaneous pain receptors called?
Nociceptors
What are cutaneous touch/pressure receptors called?
Mechanoreceptors
What are cochlea and vestibular apparatus receptors called?
Mechanoreceptors
What are rod and cone receptors called?
Photoreceptors
What are the names of receptors the pick up in smell and taste?
Chemoreceptors
Nantes of the 5 cutaneous receptors called?
3 were learned in anatomy
Pacinian corpuscles Meissner's corpuscles Free nerve endings Merkel's disk's Ruffini corpuscles (endings)
Sensation: Light touch; hot; cold; nociception (pain)
Location: around hair follicles; throughout skin
Which receptor? What is the structure?
Free nerve endings
Unmyelinated dendrites of sensory neurons
Sustained touch and pressure. base of epidermis (stratum basale)
Which receptor? Structure?
Merkel’s disks
Expanded dendritic endings
Sustained pressure. Deep in dermis and hypodermis.
Receptor? Structure?
Ruffini corpuscle (endings) Enlarged dendritic endings with open, elongated capsule
Changes in texture; slow vibrations. Upper dermis. (Papillary layer)
Receptor? Structure?
Meissner’s corpuscle.
Dendrites encapsulated in connective tissue
Sensation: Deep pressure; fast vibrations. Location: Deep in dermis .
Receptor? Structure?
Pacinian corpuscle.
Dendrites encapsulated by concentric lamellae of connective tissue structures.
Unmyelinated neurons of bare or free nerve endings cause what kind of pain?
Dull, persistent pain
Myelinated neurons of bare or free nerve endings cause what kind of pain?
Sudden, sharp pain
What are four examples of what nociceptors respond to?
Noxious (tissue damage) stimulus
Mechanical deformation
Excessive heat
Chemicals released by damaged tissue
What four chemicals are released by damaged tissues?
Bradykinins, prostaglandins, histamine, cytokines
Bradykinin: what is it released by and when?
Enzymes when tissue damage occurs
Bradykinin: what is it?
A potent pain producing chemical
The release of Bradykinin causes:
Proliferation and migration of histamines and prostaglandins.
What does proliferation and migration of histamines and prostaglandins initiate?
Initiates healing and additional pain receptors to fire
Prostaglandin is involved in: (3)
Activation of inflammatory response, production of pain, and fever
How are prostaglandins produced?
From white blood cells flooding to site of tissue damage.
What type of structure is lactate? (Lactic acid?)
Metabolite
How does lactate (lactic acid) result?
When muscles burn glucose in absence of oxygen. (Or burn pyruvate- an energy source)
What does lactic acid dissociate into?
Lactate and hydrogen ions
What does the production of lactic acid and hydrogen ions in the muscle cause?
Lowering of pH of the muscle cells.
Why does low pH (from production of lactate and hydrogen ions from lactic acid) matter?
It stimulates the free nerve endings on the muscle resulting in the perception of pain
What does it mean when a cutaneous receptor senses sustained pressure? Merkel’s discs and Ruffini corpuscle endings.
The receptor doesn’t become desensitized.
What does pacinian corpuscle and meissner’s corpuscle have in common?
They both sense vibration and their dendrites are encapsulated into connective tissue
What does Merkel’s discs and Ruffini corpuscle endings have in common?
The both sense sustained pressure and therefore do not desensitise.
What 3 thinks do free nerve ending receptors sense which the others do not?
Temperature
Nociception (pain)
Light touch
What does Merkel’s disc sense that Ruffini corpuscle endings do not?
Sustained touch
Which one receptor desensitises to pressure?
Which two do not desensitise to pressure?
Pacinian corpuscle (deep pressure) Ruffini corpuscles and Merkel's discs
Which cutaneous receptor senses change in texture?
Meissner’s corpuscle
What do histamines do?
Cause inflammation
What chemical is released when white blood cells migrate to area of tissue damage?
Prostaglandin
Which chemical is involved in the inflammatory response?
Prostaglandin
Which chemical is involved in activation of fever?
Prostaglandin
Which chemical is released first: prostaglandins or bradykinins?
Bradykinin
Name of pain pathway?
Lateral spinothalamic tract
Lateral spinothalamic tract brings somatic pain and temperature from where to where?
Thalamus to somatosensory cortex in parietal lobe.
Lateral spinothalamic tract is highly localised and rapid. What does localised mean?
One particular location
When somatic pain synapses on the the same interneurons as neuron carrying visceral pain information. What is this called?
Referred pain
4 ways to prevent or treat pain
Endorphins
Sensory or mental activity
Analgesics
Anesthetics
What do endorphins do?
Inhibit transmission of pain signals
What is endorphins?
Natural opiate
What are analgesics ?
Chemicals used to reduce sensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness or sense of touch
(Ibuprofen, aspirin, acetaminophen)
What are anesthetics?
Chemicals used to induce loss of feeling it sensation in all or part of the body
Name of the entire spectrum of light energy?
Electromagnetic spectrum
Where is the image flipped during light refraction of the eye?
The retina
Right side visual field of both eyes is projected on the ______ sides of retinas.
Left
Left side visual fields of both eyes is projected on the ______ sides of retinas.
Right
Of eye to keep an object focused on retina as distance b between eye and retina changes
is called __________
Accommodation