Somatic and Special Senses Flashcards
2 classification of general senses?
Somatic senses and visceral senses
- Conscious or subconscious awareness of changes
in the external or internal environment. - Must satisfy the four conditions.
Sensation
Conscious awareness and interpretation of sensations and is primarily a function of the cerebral cortex
Perception
4 conditions for sensations to occur
- stimulus
- nerve impulse
- brain
- interpreted as sensation
_______ - stimulus getting to the brain
_______ - how the cerebral cortex interprets the sensation
Sensation, perception
- Characteristic of MOST sensory receptors.
- Decrease in the strength of sensation during prolonged stimulus because of decrease in responsiveness of receptors.
- Perception of a sensation may fade or disappear even
though the stimulus persists
Adaptation
2 variation of adaptation
- rapidly adapting
- slowly adapting
Pressure, touch, and smell are what variant of adaptation?
Rapidly adapting
pain, body position, and chemical composition of the blood are what variant of adaptation?
Slowly adapting
2 classification of receptors are based on?
Structure, Function
3 sensory receptors classified by structure
- free nerve ending
- encapsulated nerve endings
- separate cells
6 sensory receptors based on function
- mechanoreceptor
- thermoreceptor
- nociceptor
- photoreceptor
- chemoreceptor
- osmoreceptor
Corpuscles of touch, hair root plexuses, and type I and type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors detect _____
Touch
Lamellated corpuscles detect _____
pressure and vibration
free nerve endings detect _____
tickle and itch sensations
Free nerve endings present in nearly everybody detects _____
pain
Free nerve endings in the epidermis and dermis have ______
thermoreceptors
_____ is detected by proprioceptors in the skeletal muscles, tendons, synovial joins, inner hair cells
proprioception
2 types of cutaneous mechanoreceptors
- Type I cutaneous mechanoreceptor
- Type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors
- Merkel discs/tactile discs
- Found on fingertips, hands, lips, and external genitalia
Type I cutaneous mechanoreceptor
- Ruffini corpuscle
- Found deep in the dermis, ligaments, and tendons, hands and soles
- Sensitive to stretching
Type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors
- Dermal papillae of the hairless skin
- Fingertips, hands, eyelids, tip of the tongue, lips, nipples, soles, clitoris, top of the penis
- Corpuscles of Touch (Meissner’s
Corpuscle)
Found in hairy skin
hair root plexuses
3 tactile receptors that detect pressure
- Corpuscles of touch
- Type I cutaneous
mechanoreceptors - Lamellated (PACINIAN) Corpuscle
2 tactile receptors that detect vibrations
- corpuscles of touch
- lamellated corpuscles
Corpuscles of touch detect ____ frequency vibration
lower
Lamellated corpuscles detect __ frequency vibration
higher
- stimulation of free nerve endings by chemicals
- Eg: bradykinin – local inflammatory response
itch
- free nerve endings
- Arises only when someone touches you and not when you touch yourself
tickle
Free nerve endings for detecting cold (108 and 408ºC) is in the _____ layer
Epidermis
Free nerve endings for detecting warm (328 and 488ºC) is in the _____ layer
dermis
- Extreme temperatures beyond 108C and 488C stimulate mainly ____, rather than thermoreceptors, producing painful sensations.
nociceptors
- Free nerve endings
- Found everywhere except the brain
- Pain may persist even after a pain-producing stimulus is removed because pain causing chemicals linger and because ______ exhibit very little adaptation.
nociceptors/pain receptors
2 classification of pain receptors
Fast pain, slow pain
(classification of nociceptor)
- Rapid (after 0.1 seconds)
- Acute, sharp or picking pain
- Needle puncture, knife cut to the skin
- Not felt in the deeper tissues of the body
fast pain
- (classification of nociceptor)
- A second or more after stimulus
- Increases in intensity over a period of several seconds or minutes.
- May be excruciating chronic, burning, aching, or throbbing pain.
- Can occur both in the skin and in deeper tissues or internal organs.
- Tooth ache
slow pain
- Allow us to know where our head and limbs are located and how they are moving even if we are not looking at them
- Allows us to walk, type, or dress without using our eyes
- Also allows us to estimate weight * Muscles, tendons, joints, inner ear
Proprioceptive sensations
- The _____ include smell, sight, taste, hearing, and equilibrium.
SPECIAL SENSES
- ______ – study of the eye and its disorders
Ophthalmology
the science that deals with the ears, nose, and throat and their disorders.
Otorhinolaryngology (ENT)
The olfactory epithelium in the upper portion of the nasal cavity contains:
- Olfactory receptors cells
- Supporting cells
- Basal cells
Adaptation occurs rapidly with what sense/sensory type?
olfaction
What is stronger, gustation or olfaction?
olfaction
The gustatory receptor cells are located in _____
taste buds
To be tasted, substances must be _______
dissolved in saliva