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Question:
epithelial tactile complexes
Answer:
located at the junction between epidermis and dermis - senses light pressure such as touch -
Merkel discs are associated with epithelial tactile complexes - exteroreceptors -
mechanoreceptors

Question:
hair follicle receptors
Answer:
light touch receptors that detect bending of hairs - exteroceptors - mechanoreceptors

Question:
free nerve endings
Answer:
proprioceptors, exteroceptors, interoceptors - thermoregulation, chemoreceptors,
mechanoreceptors, nociceptors

Question:
Meissner's corpiscles
Answer:
touch receptors enclosed by shwann cells and thin CT - found in areas that lack hair follicles:
dermal papillae of nipples, soles of feet, fingertips.

Question:
Pacinian corpiscles
Answer:




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, on and off pressure (vibration)

Question:
Ruffini endings
Answer:
respond to deep and continuous pressure

Question:
List three proprioceptive nerve endings
Answer:
muscle spindles - tendon organs - joint kinesthetic receptors

Question:
What are the three sensory levels?
Answer:
1. Receptor 2. Circuit 3. Perceptual

Question:
Define adaptation
Answer:
reduction in sensitivity in the presence of a constant stimulus

Question:
phasic receptors
Answer:
rapidly adapt to a constant stimulus and turn off

Question:
tonic receptors
Answer:
slowly adapting receptors that respond for the duration of a stimulus

Question:
Name the three ascending tracts of the spinal cord.




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