skin touch Flashcards
Corpuscle of touch
Dermal papiilla layer
Encapsualted
ONset of touch + low frequ vibration
Rapid adaption
Hair root plexus
Surround hair follicle
Free nerve ending
movement of hair on skin surface
Rapid adaption
Lamellated corpuscles
Pacinian corpuscles
Subcu tissue, joints, some viscera
Encapsulated
Rapid
Type I Cut mechanoreceptor
Tactile or Merkel discs
Epidermis
Free nerver ending
COntinous touch + pressure
Slow adaption
Type II Cut mechanoreceptor
Ruffinis corpuscles
Dermis ligaments tendons
Encapsuated
Skin stretching + pressure
Slow adaption
Muscle Spindles
WIthin skeletal muscle
Encapsulated
Change in muscle length
slow
Tendon Organs
GTO
Junction of tnedons + muscles
Encapsulated
Change in muscle tnesion
Slow adaption
Joint kinesthetic receptors
Synovial joints
Lam. corpuscles, type II cut. receptors, GTOs, free nerve endings
Joint position + movement
Rapid adaption
Internal Capsule
A large group of projection fibres w/ sensory and motor tracts connecting cerebral cortex to brainstem and spinal cord
The three basal nuclei
Globus pallidus
Putamne
Caudate Nucleus
Bundle of myleinated axons connecting structures within limbic system
Fornix
(center bottom bw lateral ventricles)
