tactile receptors

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types of tactile receptors
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tactile receptors
  1. Meissner corpuscles
    1. Egg-shaped mass of dendrites enclosed by a capsule of connective tissue.
      1. Rapidly adapting receptors
        1. Found in the dermal papillae of hairless skin, where one's ability to discern spatial location of touch is highly developed.
        2. hair root plexuses
          1. Rapidly adapting touch receptors found in the hairy skin
            1. Free nerve endings wrapped around hair follicles
              1. Detect movements on the skin surface that disturb hairs
              2. Merkel discs
                1. Also known as type I cutaneous mechanoreceptors
                  1. Slowly adapting touch receptors
                    1. Saucer-shaped, flattened free nerve endings.
                      1. Found in the fingertips, hands, lips, and external genitalia.
                      2. Ruffini corpuscles
                        1. Also called as type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors
                          1. Elongated, encapsulated receptors.
                            1. Located deep in the dermis and in ligaments and tendons
                              1. Found in the hands, and soles
                                1. very slowly adapting, therefore, it's important for signaling continuous states, such is heavy prolonged touch and pressure signals
                                2. pacinian corpuscles
                                  1. Large oval structure composed of a multilayered connective tissue capsule that encloses a dendrite
                                    1. Fast adapting receptors
                                      1. Found around joints, tendons, and muscles; in the periosteum, mammary glands, external genitalia, pancreas and urinary bladder.
                                        1. respond to acceleration and deceleration of joints during movement
                                      2. free nerve endings
                                        1. found everywhere in the skin and in many other tissue.
                                          1. can detect pressure and touch
                                            1. Thermoreceptorsare free nerve endings
                                              1. cold receptors, more in NO.
                                                1. warm receptors
                                                2. Free nerve endings and Ruffini corpuscles in the capsules of joints respond to pressure.
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