Sensory Structures

Touch receptors

• Mechanoreceptors
• Thermoreceptors
• Pain Receptors
• Chemoreceptors

Temperature receptors

• Thermoreceptors
• Pain Receptors
• Chemoreceptors
• Photoreceptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Nocireceptors

• Pain Receptors
• Chemoreceptors
• Photoreceptors
• Mechanoreceptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Chemical receptors

• Chemoreceptors
• Photoreceptors
• Mechanoreceptors
• Thermoreceptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Light receptors

• Photoreceptors
• Mechanoreceptors
• Thermoreceptors
• Pain receptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Free nerve endings

• Sense pain, temperature, touch, and pressure
• Encapsulated nerve endings found in hairless skin that detect light touch
• Detect light touch and pressure within epidermis
• Detect movement of hair

Meissner's Corpuscles

• Encapsulated nerve endings found in hairless skin that detect light touch
• Detect light touch and pressure within epidermis
• Detect movement of hair
• Detect deep pressure and stretching of skin

Merkel's disk

• Detect light touch and pressure within epidermis
• Detect movement of hair
• Detect deep pressure and stretching of skin
• Encapsulated nerve endings that detect deep pressure and vibrations

Hair follicle receptors

• Detect movement of hair
• Detect deep pressure and stretching of skin
• Encapsulated nerve endings that detect deep pressure and vibrations
• Sense pain, temperature, touch, and pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Ruffini's corpuscles

• Detect deep pressure and stretching of skin
• Encapsulated nerve endings that detect deep pressure and vibrations
• Sense pain, temperature, touch, and pressure
• Encapsulated nerve endings found in hairless skin that detect light touch