Sensory receptors in skin

Answer 1

Your main sensors in the skin are those for some types of pain or touch. We can distinguish a sharp from a blunt touch, and a brushing with a wisp of cotton wool will elicit a different sensation again. Vibration is a separate touch sensation again, as is also the detection of heat and cold.

Perhaps you could consider smell (olfaction) to be a skin sense, but here the smell is first dissolved in the mucus before detection.

[I had a side effect of a drug, which numbed the sense of vibration - it was only felt as a blunt touch. The operand was a tuning fork, which produces a small vibration at the stem. The proper sensations returned after >12 months off the drug.]

Answer 2

cutaneous sense organs

Or better yet:

Somatic sensory receptors detect stimuli that permit us to detect:

pressure, touch, temperature,pain, and other general sensations

These are a part of the somatosensory system. Cutaneous receptors include e.g. cutaneous mechanoreceptors (pressure and vibrations), nociceptors (pain) and thermoreceptors (temperature).

Answer 3

There are many different types of sensory receptors in the skin. Temperature changes are detected by thermoreceptors. Pressure changes are detected by baroreceptors or mechanoreceptors. And pain is detected by free nerve endings, sometimes referred to as nociceptors.

Answer 4

free nerve endings (pain receptors), a Pacinian carpuscle, and a hair folicle receptor.

Answer 5

Cutaneous Sense Organs

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Answer 6

Cutaneous sense organs.

Answer 7

the answer is cutaneous receptors

Answer 8

just guesss