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29 Cards in this Set
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Detect absolute and relative temperatures |
Termoreceptors |
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When the outside environment temperature change is recognized |
Absolute temperature |
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When you're body temperature changes |
Relative |
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Turning light into electrical energy |
Phototransduction |
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Consist of rods, cones, photosensitive ganglion cells |
Photoreceptors |
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Control blacks and white eye site and night time vision |
Rods |
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Controls color vision |
Cones |
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Controls pupil reflex to allow or block light from everything the eye |
Photosensitive ganglion cells |
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Endogenous induced pH of blood |
Chemoreceptors |
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Detects smell without touch MOE |
Olfactory |
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Detects taste by using touch VNO and pharanones |
Direct |
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What are the 4 types of mechanoreceptors |
Lamellar corpuscle, tactile corpuscle, markle cell, bulbous corpuscle |
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Rapid mechanoreceptor that detects vibration |
Lamellar |
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Rapid mechanoreceptor that reacts to light touch |
Tactile corpuscle |
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Slow reacting mechanreceptor that reacts to deep pressure |
Merkle |
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Slow mechanoreceptor that reacts to skin stretching |
Bulbous |
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When receptors are continuously stimulated |
Sensory adaptation happens. Most common with smell |
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Detects pain |
Nociceptor |
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Intense pain comes from |
A delta fibers |
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Dull pain comes from |
C fibers |
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Pain in your left arm but actually originates in your chest |
Visceral pain - poorly localized |
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Is called the rest and digest divison taking the craniosacral pathway |
Parasympathetic nervous system |
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Known for flight or fight reactions using the thoracolumbar pathway |
Sympathetic nervous system |
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Is the sympathetic nervous system what kind of cell releases stress hormones |
Chromaffin cell |
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What does sympathetic nervous system trigger a whole body response? |
Norepinephrine is dumped directly into the bloodstream then effects multiple organs |
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What chain is found on both sides of the spinal cord |
Sympathetic chain |
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In this sympathetic nervous system, what releases acetylcholine? |
Neuromuscular junction and preganglionic fibers |
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In the sympatheitc nervous system, what releases norepinephrine? |
Postganglionic fibers |
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Changes in chemical composition of body fluids, decreased pH, of accumulation of metabolic wastes can stimulate what kind of receptors? |
Nocciceptors |
