Somatic Sensory System

Question 1

What are the four receptors for touch?

Answer 1

1. Pacinian Corpuscles
2. Ruffini’s Endings’Meissner’s Corpuscles
3. Merkel’s Disk

Question 2

What fibers go through the spinothalamic tract?

Answer 2

A (delta) fibers

Question 3

What are the three different types of hair?

Answer 3

1. Guard
2. ZigZag
3. Awl/Auchene

Question 4

What is the defintion of afferent?

Answer 4

Towards the brain

Question 5

What is the definition of efferent?

Answer 5

From the brain

Question 6

Sensory signals that triggers painis known as what

Answer 6

Nociception