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| conscious or unconscious awareness of stimuli (internal or external) |
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| conversion; receptor traduces chemical energy.*** |
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| impulse generation and conduction |
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| potential reaches threshold-one or more nerve impulses are generated. |
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| specific region of the cns interprets sensation. |
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| four components of sensation |
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| stimulus, transduction, impulse generation and conduction, and integration. |
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| sensory receptors respond to only one kind of stimulus. |
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| sensory receptors respond to only one kind of stimulus. |
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| stimulation of receptors in skin |
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| stimulation of receptors in muscles, joints, tendons, and fascia. |
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| stimulation of receptors in the visceral organs. |
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| pain felt in a surface area far away from the stimulated organ> the area to which the pain is referred is severed by the same segment of the spinal cord |
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| area of skin that supplies sensory input to one pair of spinal nerves or cranial nerve to face. |
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| pain often experienced by amputees |
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| occurs very rapidly and not felt in deep tissues of the body. |
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| occurs a few seconds after stimuli; gradually increases in intensity (burning or throbbing) |
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| what are the somatic senses (general) |
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| touch, pressure, vibration, warmth, cold, pain, detection of body position and movement (proprioception) |
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| what are the special senses |
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| smell, taste, vision, hearing, equilibrium. |
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| what is sensory adaptation |
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| continuous stimulation that will often cause receptors to undergo an adjustment. (foul odors) |
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| physiology gone wrong - useful information about harmful tissue damaging stimuli and protects us from greater damage. |
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| pain receptors stimulated by excessive mechanical, electrical, thermal, or chemical energy (stimulated when tissue is damaged. |
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