Special and General Senses Senses General Senses Temperature
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Special and General Senses
Senses General Senses • Temperature • Pain • Touch pressure • Vibration • proprioception Special Senses • Smell • Taste • Balance • Hearing • vision
General Senses • Pain – Nociceptors – in skin, joints and periostea of bones, blood vessel walls, and few in visceral organs. – Fast pain – myelinated fibers carry sense. May be localized or deep – Slow pain – unmyelinated fibers – may be burning or aching pain – very general area. – Referred Pain- may not be where you think it is – see page 251 black book.
• Temperature- General senses, con’t • thermoreceptors: free nerve endings just beneath the skin, also in muscles, liver, and hypothalamus • Cold receptors 3 -4 times more numerous than warm receptors
General Senses • Touch, Pressure and Position – Mechanoreceptors – general category • Tactile receptors – touch, pressure, and vibration • Proprioceptors – monitors position of joints, tendons and ligaments and the state of muscular contraction – watch out adolescent!
Sense of Smell- olfactory organs
Sense of Taste – Gustatory Sense
Vision
Optic Nerve
Visual Pathway
Near Sighted and Far Sighted
Rods and Cones of Retina Cones are for color vision, Rods for night vision
Color vision test A subject with normal color vision can read the number 26 in the above plate, but a person with colorblindness will see only a field of gray dots.
Sense of Hearing
Tympanic membrane • Cool sound waves
Hearing Pathway
Balance – Vestibular Complex
Cochlear Implant?
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