SPECIAL SENSES Flashcards
Is the conscious or subconscious awareness of changes in the external or internal environment. Needs to satisfy the 4 conditions.
Sensation
It includes somatic and visceral senses.
General senses
sensations like touch, pressure, and vibration.
Tactile sensations
sensations like warm and cold
Thermal sensations
sensations like joint and muscle position movements
Proprioceptive sensations
4 sensations of the somatic senses
a. Tactile sensations
b. Thermal sensations
c. Pain sensations
d. Proprioceptive sensations
senses of the organs
VISCERAL SENSES
Include smell, taste, vision, hearing, and balance
SPECIAL SENSES
2 Types of senses
General & Special senses
4 CONDITIONS TO BE SATISFIED FOR A SENSATION TO OCCUR:
- Stimulus
- Sensory receptor
- Nerve impulses
- Region of the brain receiving and integrating nerve impulse
a change in the environment, capable of activating certain sensory neurons, must occur. Can be in a form of light, heat, pressure, mechanical or chemical energy.
Stimulus
must convert the stimulus to an electrical signal, which ultimately produces one or more nerve impulses if it is large enough.
Sensory receptor
must be conducted along a neural pathway from the sensory receptor to the brain.
Nerve impulses
must receive and integrate the nerve impulses into a sensation.
A Region of the brain
the conscious awareness and interpretation of sensations and is primarily a function of the cerebral cortex. Is more subjective.
PERCEPTION
a decrease in sensation during a prolonged stimulus. Some receptors are rapidly adapting; others are slowly adapting.
ADAPTATION
Rapidly adapting sensations
pressure, touch, smell
Slowly adapting sensations
pain, body position, chemical composition of blood
3 CLASSIFICATIONS OF SENSORY RECEPTORS BASED ON STRUCTURE:
- Free nerve endings
- Encapsulated nerve endings
- Separate cells
receptors for pain, temperature, tickle, itch, and some touch sensations.
Free nerve endings
for other somatic and visceral sensations such as touch, pressure, and vibration sensations.
Encapsulated nerve endings
specialized, separate cells that synapse with sensory neurons (e.g. hair cells in inner ear).
Separate cells
Bare dendrites associated with pain, thermal, tickle, itch, and some touch sensations.
Free nerve endings
Dendrites enclosed in a connective tissue capsule for pressure, vibration, and some touch sensations.
Encapsulated nerve endings
Receptor cell that synapses with first-order neuron; located in the retina of the eye (photoreceptors), inner ear (hair cells), and taste buds of the tongue (gustatory receptor cells)
Separate cells
Classification of sensory receptors are based on?
Structure and Function
6 CLASSIFICATIONS OF SENSORY RECEPTORS BASED ON FUNCTION:
- Mechanoreceptors
- Thermoreceptors
- Nociceptors
- Photoreceptors
- Chemoreceptors
- Osmoreceptors
Detect mechanical pressure; provide sensations of touch, pressure, vibrations, proprioception, and hearing and equilibrium; also monitor stretching of blood vessels and internal organs
Mechanoreceptors
Detect changes in temperature.
Thermoreceptors
Respond to painful stimuli resulting from physical or chemical damage to tissue.
Nociceptors
Detect light that strikes the retina of the eye.
Photoreceptors
Detect chemicals in mouth (taste), nose (Smell), and body fluids.
Chemoreceptors
Sense the osmotic pressure of body fluids.
Osmoreceptors
Arise from stimulation of sensory receptors in the skin, mucous membranes, muscles, tendons, and joints.
SOMATIC SENSATIONS
: Tactile receptors in skin and subcutaneous layer (Meissner corpuscles in the dermis)
: Cutaneous mechanoreceptors (in the epidermis and dermis)
Touch
: Deeper sensations (lamellated or pacinian corpuscles in the dermis)
: Internally around joints, tendons, muscles, external ganglia, etc.
Pressure
: detects high and low frequency sensations
Vibration Sensation
: Stimulation of free nerve endings (from chemicals or from touch)
Itch and tickle
Allow us to know where our head and limbs are located and how they are moving even if we are not looking at them.
PROPRIOCEPTIVE SENSATIONS
sensory receptors for pain that are located in the skeletal muscles, tendons, synovial joints, and inner ear (hair cells).
Proprioceptors
perception of body movements
KINESTHESIA
Receptors for the special senses: are housed in complex sensory organs such as the
eyes and ears.
5 special senses:
Smell Taste Sight Hearing Equilibrium
study of the eye and its disorders.
OPTHALMOLOGY
the science that deals with the ears, nose, and throat and their disorders.
OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
• The nose contains ___ for the sense of smell
10 – 100 million receptors
occupies the upper portion of the nasal cavity and consists of the 3 types of cells
OLFACTION EPITHELIUM
3 types of cells of the olfaction epithelium:
- Olfactory receptors
- Supporting cells
- Basal cells
sense of smell
olfaction
: Columnar epithelial cells of the mucous membrane lining of the nose.
: Provide physical support, nourishment, and electrical insulation for olfactory receptor cell.
: Help detoxify chemicals that come in contact w/ the olfactory epithelium.
Supporting cells
: Stem cells located between the bases of the supporting cells.
: Continually undergo cell division to produce new olfactory receptor cells
: Live only for a month before being replaced.
Basal cells
sense of taste
GUSTATION
5 primary tastes:
Sour Sweet Bitter Salty Umami (savory/ meaty)
\: Where taste receptors are found \: Located on tongue papillae \: 10,000 are found mostly on the tongue \: Some on the roof of the mouth, pharynx, epiglottis \: Lifespan: 10 days
Taste buds