Senses: General and Special Flashcards
Temperature, pain, touch, stretch, pressure are ___________ senses
Gustation, olfaction, vision, equilibrium, hearing are ___________ senses
General, special
Receptors act as ___________ and they change from one energy to another
e.g visual receptors change light energy into electrical energy on the optic nerve
Receptors have ___________ ___________ which are areas through which their sensitive ends are distributed
Transducers, receptive fields
Tonic receptors ___________ adapt (only slowly decrease firing in response to a constant stimulus)
Phasic receptors ___________ adapt to constant stimuli (fire only in response to changing stimuli)
___________ sense receptors are distributed throughout skin and organs
___________ sense receptors are housed in complex organs in head
Slowly
Rapidly
General
Special
- Receptor distribution
- ___________ sensory receptors
in skin, mucous membranes lining body cavities, joints, muscles, tendons
Monitor a variety of stimuli including texture, pressure, temperature, pain, vibration, stretch
- ___________ sensory receptors
In walls of internal organs and blood vessels
Detect stretch, changes in chemical concentrations, temperature, pain - ___________ sense receptors
Specialized, complex sense organs located in the head
Special senses are smell, taste, vision, hearing, equilibrium
Somatic
Visceral
Special
- Stimulus origin
___________ detect stimuli from external environment
- includes receptors in skin, in body cavity linings, special sense organs
___________ detect stimuli in internal organs
- include stretch receptors in smooth muscle as well as receptors for pain, pressure, temperature, chemical changes in viscera
___________ detect stimuli pertaining to body position
- Found in muscles, tendons, and joints
Exteroceptors
Interoceptors
Proprioceptors
- Modality of stimulus
___________: detect specific molecules dissolved in fluid
___________: detect changes in temperature
___________: detect changes in intensity, color, position in light
___________: detect touch, pressure, vibration, stretch
___________: detect pressure changes within body structures
___________: detect painful stimuli
Chemoreceptors
Thermoreceptors
Photoreceptors
Mechanoreceptors
Baroreceptors:
Nociceptors
Phantom pain is a sensation associated with a part of the body that has been ___________
___________ ___________ syndrome: excitation of a CNS neuron that was formerly excited by the amputated limb interpreted as pain in that limb
___________ pain occurs when impulses from certain viscera are perceived as originating from the dermatome of the skin, and not the viscera
E.g heart attack may be referred to dermatomes of T1-T5
Amputated
Phantom limb syndrome
Referred
sites of referred pain
Liver and gallblader, appendix, ureter, heart, stomach, pancreas, ovary, kidney, urinary bladder
Tactile receptors are the most ___________ type.
They are ___________ receptors that react to touch, pressure, vibration
___________ receptors have nerve endings wrapped in CT or glial cells
___________ receptors do not
Numerous,
mechano
Encapsulated
Unencapsulated
Unencapsulated:
- ___________ ___________ in dermis
- ___________ ___________ around follicles
- ___________ ___________ associated with tactile (merkel) cells in stratum basale
Encapsulated types:
- ___________ corpuscle
= ___________corpuscle in dermis, subcutaneous tissue, synovial membrane, and some viscera
- ___________ corpuscle
= Messner’s corpuscle in dermal papillae, especially lips, palms, eyelids, nipples, genitals
___________ an ___________ corpuscles also found in dermis as well as other locations
Free nerve endings
Root hair plexus
Tactile discs
Lamellated
Pacinian
Tactile
Meissner’s
Bulbous (ruffini’s) and Krause’s end bulbs
Phasic or tonic?
Free nerve endings
Root hair plexus
Tactile disc
Lamellated
Tactile corpuscle
Bulbous corpuscle
End bulb
Phasic or tonic
Phasic
Tonic
Phasic
Phasic
Tonic
Tonic
Meissner’s corpuscle:
Reception field size
Adaptation speed
vibration frequency
location
action
Phasic or tonic
Reception field size: small
Adaptation speed: Rapid
vibration frequency: low
location: Shallow in dermis
action: stroking
Tonic
Merkel cell
Reception field size
Adaptation speed
vibration frequency
location
action
Phasic or tonic
Reception field size: small
Adaptation speed: slow
vibration frequency: low
location: basal epidermis
action: light touch
Tonic
Pacinian (Lamellated)
Reception field size
Adaptation speed
vibration frequency
location
action
Phasic or tonic
Reception field size: Large
Adaptation speed: Rapid
vibration frequency: High
location: Deep in dermis
action: Pressure
Phasic
Ruffini’s corpuscle (bulbous)
Reception field size
Adaptation speed
vibration frequency
location
action
Phasic or tonic
Reception field size: large
Adaptation speed: slow
vibration frequency: high
location: Deep in dermis
action: skin stretch
Tonic