Touch receptors Flashcards
0
Q
A dendrite wrapped around a hair follicle
Function: light touch when the hair is displaced
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Hair Follicle Receptors
1
Q
They are widespread superficial and found in hairy and hairless skin
Function: light touch, temperature, and pain
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Free Nerve Endings
2
Q
Found in dermal papillae of hairless skin
Function: light touch and low frequency vibrations
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Meissner’s corpuscles
3
Q
found in the stratum basale of hairy and hairless skin
Function: pressure touch
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Merkel’s nerve complex
4
Q
in the dermis joint capsules, some viscera, genitals, and breasts
Function: high frequency vibrations, pressure, stretch, and tickling
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lamellated and pacinian corpuscles
5
Q
in the dermis and joint capsules
Function: pressure touch
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Ruffini’s cylinders
