Tactile Receptors

Question 1

Found in non-partisan (glabrous) skin, especially the fingernails and lips; for fine touch, two-point discrimination, movement of objects and low-frequency vibration

Answer 1

Meissner’s corpuscles

Question 2

Expanded tip tactile receptors; for localizing touch sensation and determining texture

Answer 2

Merkel’s disc

Question 3

In hair base; for determining movement of object on skin

Answer 3

Hair-end organ

Question 4

In deep skin, internal tissues and joint capsules; for heavy and prolonged touch and signalling degree of joint rotation

Answer 4

Ruffini’s end organs

Question 5

Onion-like structure in skin and deep fascia; for detecting pressure, touch and high-frequency vibration

Answer 5

Pacinian corpuscles

Question 6

Meissner’s corpuscles: receptor type

Answer 6

Fast adapting, type 1

Question 7

Merkel’s disc: receptor type

Answer 7

Slow adapting, type 1

Question 8

Ruffini’s end organs: receptor type

Answer 8

Slow adapting, type 2

Question 9

Pacinian corpuscles: receptor type

Answer 9

Fast acting, type 2

Question 10

Merkel’s discs on top of each other combine to form this

Answer 10

Iggo dome receptors

Question 11

Found in skin; for touch and pressure

Answer 11

Free nerve endings

Question 12

Special regions of the semicircular canals that detect circular movements of the head

Answer 12

Cristae ampullares

Question 13

Cold and pressure receptors in the dermis

Answer 13

Krause end bulbs