Special senses: Touch- Smell

The skin senses for which of the following?

• Temperature

• Pressure

• Pain

• Touch

• The skin can sense all of these

Which of the following are rapidly adapting nerve endings providing information on light touch?

• Meissner's

• Pacinian

• Alzheimers'

• None of these

In skin senses, the separation distance is called

• one point threshold

• two point threshold

• three point threshold

• It can be any one of these

Tactile and pressure receptors are known as

• mechanoreceptors

• chemoreceptors

• photoreceptors

• thermoreceptors

Pressure receptors in deep subcutaneous tissues of the body are known as

• Pacinian corpuscles

• Meissner's corpuscles

• Pacman corpuscles

• none of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The way that receptors inform the brain about stimulus strength is called

• frequency modulation

• action potential

• receptor potentials

• signal transduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

All of the following are general senses EXCEPT

• touch

• temperature

• equilibrium

• pain

Flavor of acidic substances

• umami

• salty

• sweet

• sour

• bitter

Flavor of basic substances, including alkaloids

• umami

• salty

• sweet

• sour

• bitter

Small projections located on the tongue’s surface where taste buds are located are known as:

• papillae

• gustatory cells

• olfactory epithelium

• mucous producing glands