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Exoreceptive Senses: Any sensation that comes from external environment
Ex: pain, touch, temperature
Interoceptive Senses: Any sensation that comes from inside the body
- Ex: Changes in viscera (internal organs of body)
Proprioceptive Senses: Pressure/position
Properties of General Senses: Senses with small, widespread sensory receptors, associated
with skin, muscles, joints, viscera.
Touch & Pressure Senses: - Free nerve endings
- Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors
- Pacinian Corpuscles
Free Nerve Endings: For pain and temperature
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Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors: Touch sensation
- Merkel is in epidermis
Pacinian Corpuscles: For pressure, vibrations
- In dermis
Muscle Spindles: Proreceptors of muscles
Gustation: Sense of taste
Properties of Special Senses: - in the head
- Smell: olfactory nerves in nasal cavity
- Taste: taste buds in oral cavity
- Hearing & equilibrium: inner ears
- Sight: eyes