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Why is the skin a sense organ?
The skin is considered a sense organ because skin conducts sensory nerve impulses which can made us response either feeling pain,cool,hot and so onMeissners corpuscles sense light touch, Pacinian corpuscles sense deep touch and pain
How many types of nerve fibers are in the skin?
Sensory receptors in the skin (cutaneous receptors) are generally of the mechanoreceptor, nociceptor, and thermoreceptor types. Mechanoreceptors sense pressure (such as touch) and vibrations and for example include Meissner corpuscles, Merkel disks, Ruffini corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles. Nociceptors sense pain caused by damage. Thermoreceptors convey feelings of heat or cold. Chemoreceptors that sense the presence of specific chemicals are sometimes present depending on location but are generally not found on exposed skin.
What is the function of Meissners Corpuscles?
This is a sense organ located on the finger tips and other parts of the skin in hairless areas. It is a group of cells that form an oval and are attached to a sensory nerve.
What sense of light isTactile Meissner's corpuscles responsible for?
Yes, sensing light touch.
Which sense organ is also an excretory organ?
The skin is both a sense and excretory organ.
What is the scence organ?
-- The organ of the sense of sight is the eye, including the optic nerve. -- The organ of the sense of hearing is the ear, including the middle and inner ones. -- The organ of the sense of smell is the nose and the olfactory nerves. -- The organ of the sense of taste is the tongue and its taste buds. -- The organ of the sense of touch is the skin and its nerve endings.
Which sense organ also functions as a sense organ for temperature?
Skin
What organ is a sense organ?
A sense organ is an organ of the 6 senses. The sense organs and senses are: the eyes--sight the nose--smell the tongue--taste the ears--hearing and balance the skin--touch
The organ of corti is the organ of what sense?
hearing
What some examples of proprioceptors?
Proprioceptors are sensory nerve ending in muscles, tendons, and joints which respond to variations in movement, position, and tension. Muscle spindles proprioceptors sense changes in muscle length, Pacinian corpuscles are proprioceptor which detect changes in movement and pressure within the body, and the Golgi tendon organs, proprioceptors in the tendons near the end of muscle fibers, are sensitive to changes in muscle tension.
Is a smoke a detector like a sense organ?
is a smoke detector like a sense organ
What is another name for a sense organ that starts with a you?
There is no sense organ beginning with the letter U.
