Text | Somatosensation: 1) pacinian corpuscles - deep pressure and vibration 2) meissner corpuscles - light touch 3) Merkle discs - deep pressure & texture 4) Ruffini endings - stretch 5) Free nerve endings - pain & temperature 6) Physiological zero - temperature of skin by which other temperatures are judged 7) gate theory of pain - gating mechanism turns pain signals on/off from spinal cord 8) Two point threshold - minimum distance between two detectable points |
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