Sensory System and Its Functions

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Five basic human senses

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Touch, vision, hearing, smell, and taste.

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Immediate reaction to extreme heat

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The spinal cord can process impulses directly, causing immediate body reactions.

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Immediate reaction to environmental changes

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Facilitated by the spinal cord processing impulses directly.

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Additional primary senses

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Proprioception, balance, temperature, pain

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Special sense characteristic

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Specific organ devoted to the sense

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Organ for sense of sight

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Eye

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Special sense example

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Sense of sight

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Sensory receptors location

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Within other organs

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Proprioceptors sense the location of body parts in relation to one another.

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They help in coordinating movements.

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Fifth structure light passes through in the eye

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Vitreous humor