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Ch 16 Sensory, Motor & Integrative Systems
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
08/04/2011

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Term
Somatic Senses
Definition

-one of the General Senses

-Provide sensory information about the body and the environment, including:

touch

pressure

temperature

proprioception

pain

Term
Visceral Senses
Definition

-one of the General Senses

-Provide information about various internal organs, consist primarily of pain and pressure.

Term
Mechanoreceptors
Definition
– Respond mechanical stimuli, such as compression, bending, or stretching of cells.

Touch, pressure, vibration, proprioception, hearing, equilibrium, blood pressure
Term
Chemoreceptors
Definition
– Respond to chemicals that become attached to receptors on their membranes.

Smell and taste depend on chemoreceptors.
Term
Thermoreceptors
Definition
– Respond to changes in temperature at the site of the receptor and are necessary for the sense of temperature.
Term
Photoreceptors
Definition
– Respond to light striking the receptor cells and are necessary for vision.
Term
Nociceptors or Pain Receptors
Definition
– Respond to painful mechanical, chemical, or thermal stimuli.
Term
Exteroceptors (Cutaneous receptor)
Definition
– Are associated with the skin. Provide information about the external environment Sensitive to stimuli outside the body and transmit sensations of hearing, vision, smell, taste, touch, pressure, vibration, temperature, and pain.
Term
Visceroceptors
Definition
– Are associated with the visceral or organs.

Provide information about the internal environment

These sensations arise from within the body and often do not reach conscious perception.

Occasionally, may be felt as pain or pressure.
Term
Proprioceptors
Definition
– Are associated with joints, tendons, and other connective tissues.

Provide information about body position and movement
Term
8 sensory nerve endings in the skin:
Definition
1. Free Nerve ending
2. Merkel’s disk
3. Hair follicle receptor
4. Pacinian corpuscle
5. Meissner’s corpuscle
6. Ruffini’s end organ
7. Muscle spindle
8. Golgi tendon organ
Term
Primary receptors
Definition
– Are sensory receptors cells that have axons that conduct action potential in response to the receptor potential.
Term
Secondary receptors
Definition
– Are sensory receptor cells that have no axons and the receptor potentials produced in those cells do not result in action potentials
Term
rapidly adapting receptors
Definition
associated with pressure, touch, and smell
Term
slowly adapting receptors
Definition
monitor stimuli associated with pain, body position, and chemical composition of the blood
Term
Dyskinesia
Definition
is a movement disorder which consists of effects including diminished voluntary movements and the presence of involuntary movements, similar to tics or choreia
Term
referred pain
Definition
in many instances of visceral pain, the pain is felt in or just deep to the skin that overlies the stimulated organ
Term
amnesia
Definition
-refers to lack or loss of memory
-it is a total or partial inability to remember past experiences
Term
Special Senses
Definition

include the sensory modalities of:

smell

taste

vision

hearing

equilibrium or balance

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