ECPI : A&P: CHAPTER 12 Questions And Answers

ECPI : A&P: CHAPTER 12 Questions And
Answers

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

, ECPI : A&P: CHAPTER 12 Questions And
Answers

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