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Anatomy and Physiology 2
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 2
09/13/2009

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Nociceptors
Definition
Respond to painful stimuli resulting from physical or chemical damage to tissue
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Photoreceptors
Definition
detect light that strike the retina of the eye
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Rapidly Adapting Receptors
Definition
Adapt very quickly and signal changes in stimuli.
Ex: pressure, touch, smell
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Slowly Adapting Receptors
Definition
Adapt slowly and continue as long as the stimulus persists.
Ex: pain, body position, chemical composition of blood
Term
Gentle Touch?
Definition
Meissner Corpuscles
Term
Two rapidly adapting touch receptors?
Definition
Meissner Corpuscles and Hair Root Plexuses
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Two slow adapting touch receptors?
Definition
Merkel Disks and Ruffini Corpuscles
Term
7TM
Definition
7 transmembrane receptors
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CNG
Definition
Cyclic Nucleotide Gated Channel
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Microvillus is formed by what?
Definition
Microfilaments
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A single, long, microvillus?
Definition
Gustatory Hair
Term
What forms microfilaments?
Definition
Acton
Term
What forms tight junctions?
Definition
Intermediate Filaments
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