Sensory Receptor Classification

Question 1

Cutaneous receptors are sensory receptors found where or where?

Answer 1

DERMIS
or
EPIDERMIS

Question 2

Meissner corpuscles and ___________ cells are found in the uppermost part of the dermis.

Answer 2

Merkel

Question 3

What do Meissner corpuscles and Merkel cells detect?

Answer 3

FINE TOUCH
aka
DISCRIMINATIVE TOUCH

Question 4

What is found in the glabrous skin?

Answer 4

MEISSNER CORPUSCLES
\+
MERKEL CELLS
\+
RUFFINI

Question 5

What are ruffini sensitive to?

Answer 5

SKIN STRETCH, MONITOR SLIPPAGE OF OBJECTS ALONG SURFACE

Question 6

Name the corpuscles which detect “deep touch” (pressure)?

Answer 6

PACINIAN CORPUSCLES

Question 7

What’s the name of the multi-layered capsules with many branched nerve endings which are thought to help us feel extreme cold?

Answer 7

BULBS OF KRAUSE

Question 8

__________ nerve endings are the unmyelinated terminal branches of the neuron.

Answer 8

NAKED

Question 9

Name the receptor which responds to the adequate stimulus, light?

Answer 9

PHOTORECEPTORS

Question 10

Name the receptor which responds to the adequate stimuli of chemical (smell, taste)?

Answer 10

CHEMORECEPTORS

Question 11

Name the receptor which responds to the adequate stimulus, temperature; heat, cold or both?

Answer 11

THERMORECEPTORS

Question 12

Name the receptor which responds to the adequate stimulus, mechanical stress and depolarize when their membranes are physically stretched?

Answer 12

MECHANORECEPTORS

Question 13

Which receptor classification incorporates the Bulbs of Krause?

Answer 13

THERMORECEPTORS