Anatomy Special Senses Review

These receptors are widely spread throughout the body and include the skin

• Specific Senses

• Special Senses

• General Senses

• Generic Senses

Nociceptors

• Respond to chemical change

• Respond to light

• Respond to air pressure

• Respond to pain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Photoreceptors are only found in the nose.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Proprioception

• The body's ability to sweat

• Spatial awareness of the limbs and joints

• Decreased vibratory sense

• Long term weakness

Creates a sense of itching

• Proprioceptors

• Mechanoreceptors

• Chemoreceptors

• Free Nerve Endings

Temperature receptors

• Thermoreceptors

• Thiaminereceptors

• Chemoreceptors

• Mechanoreceptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Visceral pain

• limb pain

• organ pain

• referred pain

• both B and C

Olfactory organs are responsible for

• smell

• taste

• hearing

• touch

The sense of smell is closely related to the sense of

• sight

• touch

• taste

• balance

Sense of taste

• olfaction

• gustation

• proprioception

• induction