PHYSIOLOGY
MUSCLE RECEPTORS
Question
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The sense of touch detects ____ stimuli.
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electromagnetic
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chemical
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mechanical
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pH
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Mechanoreceptors detect stimuli such as touch, pressure, vibration, and sound from the external and internal environments. They contain primary sensory neurons that respond to changes in mechanical displacement, usually in a localized region at the tip of a sensory dendrite.
Detailed explanation-2: -[8] Mechanoreceptors respond to physical changes including touch, pressure, vibration, and stretch.
Detailed explanation-3: -Four major types of encapsulated mechanoreceptors are specialized to provide information to the central nervous system about touch, pressure, vibration, and cutaneous tension: Meissner’s corpuscles, Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel’s disks, and Ruffini’s corpuscles (Figure 9.3 and Table 9.1).
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