Skin Structure

What type of skin receptor is in the black box?

• Free nerve endings

• Ruffini's endings

• Merkel discs

• Hair follicle receptor

What type of skin receptor is in the black box?

• Free nerve endings

• Ruffini's endings

• Merkel discs

• Meissner's corpuscle

What type of skin receptor is in the black box?

• Pacinian corpuscle

• Ruffini's endings

• Merkel discs

• Meissner's corpuscle

What type of skin receptor is in the black box?

• Pacinian corpuscle

• Ruffini's endings

• Hair follicle receptor

• Meissner's corpuscle

What type of skin receptor is in the black box?

• Pacinian corpuscle

• Ruffini's endings

• Hair follicle receptor

• Meissner's corpuscle

Pacinian corpuscles mainly detect...

• Touch

• Pressure and vibration

• Temperature

• Pain

Meissner's corpuscles, hair follicle receptors, and Merkel discs mainly detect...

• Touch

• Pressure and vibration

• Temperature

• Pain

Free nerve endings detect...

• Touch

• Just pain

• Just temperature

• Pain and temperature

Most skin receptors can be found...

• In the epidermis

• In the dermis

• In the stratum lucidum

• Wrapped around the hair follicle

Uppermost part of the hair that extends from the skin surface (the part of the hair strand you can see).

• Hair bulb

• Hair root

• Hair shaft

• Hair follicle