KIN 2500 Chapter : SI Worksheet Somatic And Motor Senses
15 Mar 2019
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A specific sensation for example, touch taste, smell, heart, balance and equilibrium. Smell, taste, pressure, touch, and temperature adapt quickly. The stimulus is still there, we just don"t perceive it as strongly anymore. Tactile senses-touch, pressure, vibration, itching tickling thermal senses- cold and warm pain- nociceptors proprioception- awareness of your body in space. Vision, smell, hearing, taste, balance, equilibrium (5 basic sense plus equilibrium and balance. Free nerve endings associated with pain, thermal, tickle, itch, and some. Synapse with first-order sensory neurons; located in the retina of the eye (photoreceptors), inner ear (hair cells), and the taste buds of the tongue (gustatory) Detect light that strikes the retina of the eye mechanoreceptors. Detect mechanical stimuli; provide sensations of touch, pressure, vibration, proprioception, and hearing and equilibrium; also monitors stretching of blood vessels and internal organs. thermoreceptors. Sense the osmotic pressure of body fluids chemoreceptors. Detect chemicals in mouth, nose, and body fluids.
