Exam 23: General Senses

Explain the different functions of the muscle spindles and the Golgi tendon receptors.

If you cut yourself on the finger, the fiber sending the message to your brain would be a type A pain fiber.

Proprioceptors are activated by a change in temperature.

What types of receptors are important in stimulating the thirst center?

Tonic proprioceptors allow us to know the location of our body parts without having to look.

The terms Merkel disk and tactile meniscus refer to the same structure.

Sensory impulses ending in what part of the CNS give specific awareness of a specific type of sensation, its exact location, and its level of intensity?

Match each receptor type with its corresponding description. -Activated by intense stimuli of any type that results in tissue damage

Which term is another name for a variant of a Meissner corpuscle called the bulboid corpuscle?

Sensory impulses ending in what part of the CNS trigger imprecise or "crude" sensation awareness?

Which of the following is an anatomical variant of a Meissner corpuscle?

Golgi tendon receptors respond in a way similar to muscle spindles to maintain posture.

Visceroceptors are located in which of the following?

Osmoreceptors measure the type of chemicals in the blood and stimulate the hypothalamus.

The function of a receptor is to turn a stimulus into a nerve impulse.

Proprioceptors respond to pressure in such organs as the intestine and the urinary bladder.

The interpretation of the sensation of being tickled requires a complex interaction of many parts of the brain.

The two-point discrimination test can be used to measure:

Intense stimuli of any type that results in tissue damage will activate:

Proprioceptors are specialized types of visceroceptors.