7-1 The Special Senses
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Somatic and Special Senses
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Senses
constantly provide us with information
about our surroundings
Grouped into two major categories:
- general senses
- special senses
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Sensory Pathway
Includes:
- receptors
- sensory neurons
- sensory tracts
- sensory area
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Receptors
detect stimuli
specific with respect to changes to which
they respond
Sensory Neurons
transmit impulses from receptors to
central nervous system
found in both spinal and cranial nerves
(each carries only one type of receptor)
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Sensory Tracts
white matter in spinal cord or brain
transmit impulses to a specific part of brain
Sensory Areas
most are in cerebral cortex
feel and interpret sensations
learning to interpret sensations begins in
infancy without awareness and continues
throughout life
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General Senses
Somatic:
- tactile - touch, pressure, vibration, itch, etc.
- thermal - hot and cold
- pain - acute and chronic
- proprioceptive - muscle, tendon, joint
Visceral
- distension of viscera - internal organs
- chemical composition of extracellular fluid
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Special Senses
Somatic:
- visual - sight
- auditory - hearing
- equilibrium - static and dynamic
equilibrium
Visceral:
- olfactory - smell
- gustatory - taste
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Skin Receptors
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Tactile Sensations
Touch receptors:
- root hair plexuses
- tactile discs
- type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors
- corpuscles of touch - (Meissner’s
corpuscles)
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Root Hair Plexuses
dendrites arranged around hair follicles
receptors that rapidly adapt to detect
movements when hair is disturbed
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Tactile Discs
expanded (flattened) nerve endings
slowly adapting touch receptors for
discriminative touch
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Type II Cutaneous
Mechanorecptors
also called end organ for Ruffini
expanded nerve endings
embedded in dermis
receptors that adapt slowly to heavy
and continuous touch
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Corpuscles of Touch
(Meissner’s Corpuscles)
small, oval, encapsulated nerve endings
rapidly adapting touch receptors
recognize exactly what point to which
body is touched
abundant in hairless portions of skin
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Corpuscles of Touch
(cont.)
rapidly adapting receptors that respond
to low frequency vibrations
also respond to pressure and touch
stimuli
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Tactile Sensations
Pressure and vibration receptors:
- corpuscles of touch (Meissner’s)
- lamellated corpuscles (Pacinian)
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Lamellated Corpuscles
(Pacinian)
oval structures
composed of connective tissue
layered like an onion
enclose a dendrite
rapidly adaptive receptors that respond
to pressure and high frequency
vibrations
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Tactile Sensations
(itch and tickle receptors)
free nerve endings are receptors for
both tickle and itch sensations
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Thermal Sensations
(thermoreceptors)
heat receptors most sensitive to
temperatures above 25oC (77oF) and
become unresponsive at temperatures
above 45oC (113oF)
cold receptors most sensitive to
temperatures between 10oC (50oF) and
20oC (68oF)
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Thermal Sensations
(cont.)
intermediate temperature sensory input
from combination of cold and heat
receptors
both heat and cold receptors rapidly
adapt to continuous stimulation
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Pain Sensations
(Nociceptors)
free, naked nerve endings
located between cells of epidermis
respond to all types of stimuli
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Referred Pain
pain that feels as if it originated from a
part other than site being stimulated
Example:
- pain from heart attack (myocardial
infarction) may be felt in left shoulder or
inside of left arm
- pain from gallstones may be felt in
right shoulder
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