Question | Answer |
What type of receptors receive all non-painful mechanical stimuli? | mechanoreceptors |
What type of receptors receive hot and cold sensation? | thermoreceptors |
What type of receptors receive vision? | electromagnetic/photo receptors |
What type of receptors receive tast, smell, osmolality? | chemoreceptors |
What are the two superficial tactile sensory receptors? | tactile corpuscle (Meissner) |
What are the two deep tactile sensory receptors? | lamellar corpuscle |
Hair receptors function, threshold, adaptibility. | light touch, low, rapid |
Free nerve endings function, threshold, adaptability | pain/temp, high, slow |
Tactile disks (Merkel) function, threshold, adaptation | touch and static pressure, low, slow |
Tactile corpuscles (Meissner) function, threshold, adaptation | touch and dynamic pressure, low, rapid |
Lamellar corpuscles (Pacini) function, threshold, adaptation | deep pressure, muscles and joints, low, rapid |
What sensory neurons have the highest velocity? | A-alpha |
Order sensory neurons from fastest to slowest. | A-alpha, A-beta, A-delta, C |
Proprioception is relayed to what class of sensory neuron? | A-alpha |
Non-painful touch is relayed to what class of sensory neuron? | A-beta |
Pain and temperature is relayed to what class of sensory neurons? | A-delta and C |