Touch And Pain Flashcards

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1
Q

What is a stimuli

A

A change in your environment

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2
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What organ senses touch

A

Your skin

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3
Q

What is the sense of touch produced by

A

Different nerve endings in the skin

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4
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What is the skin sensitive to

A

Pressure heat or cold,pain joint position

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5
Q

What happens if humans don’t experience pain

A

They will cause damage to themselves and places around them

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6
Q

What is the dark part of the nerve cell

A

Nucleus

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7
Q

What do dentries do

A

Connect with other neutrons

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8
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What surrounds the nucleus

A

Cytoplasm

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9
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What is the the axon

A

Nerve fibre

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10
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What insulates the axon

A

myelin sheath

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11
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What connects with muscle or gland

A

Nerve endings

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12
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How do we smell

A

Chemicals in the air are passed into your nose and old factory membrane containing 40 million receptors will devised the smell detected

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13
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What are sound waves

A

Vibration in the air

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14
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What are the 3 tiny bones in the ear called

A

Hammer anvil and stirrup

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15
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What do the 3 tiny bones in our ears do

A

Amplify the vibrations

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