NERVOUS SYSTEM SPECIAL SENSE
PERIPHERAL NERVE
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Pain
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Pressure
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Temperature
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Touch
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Detailed explanation-1: -The four major types of tactile mechanoreceptors include: Merkel’s disks, Meissner’s corpuscles, Ruffini endings, and Pacinian corpuscles. Merkel’s disk are slow-adapting, unencapsulated nerve endings that respond to light touch; they are present in the upper layers of skin that has hair or is glabrous.
Detailed explanation-2: -Touch receptors are a subtype of sensory neuron that are located in the skin and possess specialized endings that respond to mechanical stimulation. As part of the somatosensory system, touch receptors therefore transmit information regarding tactile stimuli to the central nervous system.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main categories of touch receptor are called thermoreceptors, chemoreceptors, and mechanoreceptors.