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tactile receptors
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types of tactile receptors
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receptors
sensation
tactile
pressure
touch
pain
deep
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tactile receptors
Meissner corpuscles
Egg-shaped mass of dendrites enclosed by a capsule of connective tissue.
Rapidly adapting receptors
Found in the dermal papillae of hairless skin, where one's ability to discern spatial location of touch is highly developed.
hair root plexuses
Rapidly adapting touch receptors found in the hairy skin
Free nerve endings wrapped around hair follicles
Detect movements on the skin surface that disturb hairs
Merkel discs
Also known as type I cutaneous mechanoreceptors
Slowly adapting touch receptors
Saucer-shaped, flattened free nerve endings.
Found in the fingertips, hands, lips, and external genitalia.
Ruffini corpuscles
Also called as type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors
Elongated, encapsulated receptors.
Located deep in the dermis and in ligaments and tendons
Found in the hands, and soles
very slowly adapting, therefore, it's important for signaling continuous states, such is heavy prolonged touch and pressure signals
pacinian corpuscles
Large oval structure composed of a multilayered connective tissue capsule that encloses a dendrite
Fast adapting receptors
Found around joints, tendons, and muscles; in the periosteum, mammary glands, external genitalia, pancreas and urinary bladder.
respond to acceleration and deceleration of joints during movement
free nerve endings
found everywhere in the skin and in many other tissue.
can detect pressure and touch
Thermoreceptorsare free nerve endings
cold receptors, more in NO.
warm receptors
Free nerve endings and Ruffini corpuscles in the capsules of joints respond to pressure.
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