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Somatic senses have adaptability, which means that continuous stimulation will decrease its response over time, take for example sweets: after eating overly sweet food like candies or cake try taking some juice or something less sugared, it won't have any taste or will taste bitter. Pain receptors on the other hand don't adapt, so they keep sending nervous impulses as long as the nocive stimulus is still there, this is the reason there's chronic pain.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoPain receptors adapt very little, if at all. Once a receptor is activated, it may continue to send impulses into the Central Nervous System for some time.
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Normal balance or equilibrium depends on input from a number of sensory receptors name them?
Vestibular receptors, Visual receptors, Somatic receptors (from skin, muscle, joints)Type your answer here...
Where does the neurons in the primary sensory cortex receive somatic information from?
Most of the sensory information first goes through the thalamus. touch, pressure, pain, taste, and temperature receptors.
Which receptors respond to a scraped knee?
pain receptors
How do the sensory receptors in your fingers differentiate between different objects?
You have several sensory receptors and they all measure differences in pressure, displacement, and movement. The main ones are the Merkle, Meissner, Pacinian, Raffini, Krause, Hair follicle receptors, and the pain receptors.
Which type or receptors are located everywhere in the body except for the brain?
pain receptors
What kind of pain comes from a gun shot to the abdomen?
Both somatic and visceral pain. The somatic pain would come from cutaneous receptors and visceral pain from the intestines.
How are sensory receptors classified?
somatic receptors and special receptors
Normal balance or equilibrium depends on input from a number of sensory receptors name them?
Vestibular receptors, Visual receptors, Somatic receptors (from skin, muscle, joints)Type your answer here...
What is meant by noriceptive Pain example somatic and visceral?
Nociceptive means having to do with pain. So the phrase "nociceptive pain" is redundant. The body's nervous system has 2 kinds of nociceptive receptors--somatic and visceral. Visceral means having to do with the viscera, which are your hollow internal organs (such as the stomach and the intestines). Whereas somatic pain receptors are easily localized, visceral pain is difficult to pin down as to location. Thus, when you have pain on a particular finger, you know exactly which finger is hurting and where the pain is on the finger. But when you have something wrong with a part of your intestine, and it's the intestine on the right side of your abdomen, the pain is going to seem to be coming from the midline of your abdomen, not on the right side. An example is appendicitis, whose pain is typically felt in the midline until the inflammation reaches the abdominal wall (which is somatic), at which time the pain is felt on the right side of the abdomen.
What cutaneous receptors are the most numerous?
Simple Pain receptors.
Are general somatic receptors distributed evenly over the body?
no
How many different kinds of pain are there?
There are three different kinds of pain and possibly a fourth that would be a combination of the others. The types are somatic, neuropathic, and visceral.
Where does the neurons in the primary sensory cortex receive somatic information from?
Most of the sensory information first goes through the thalamus. touch, pressure, pain, taste, and temperature receptors.
What receptors do not undergo adaptation?
Tonic receptors have little to no adaptation while phasic receptors adapt fast!
Does your liver have pain receptors?
No.. The capsule has pain receptors which are activated when it is stretched
What are the somatic receptors?
Somatic receptors are a specialized type of receptor located near the surface of the body. These cells detect passive types of environmental stimuli, such as temperature, air currents, and barometric pressure. The receptors transmit the information to the sensory pathways via action potentials. The sensory pathways deliver the somatic (and visceral) information to the central nervous system.
Which receptors respond to a scraped knee?
pain receptors
