KINESIOL 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Inner Ear, Glossopharyngeal Nerve, Sound
20 Jun 2016
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Sensory receptors that are located throughout the entire body. Sensory receptors located in the skin, muscles and joints. Specialized sensory receptors that are located in very specific areas in the body. Responds to the compression, bending or stretching of cells: provides the senses of touch, pressure, proprioception, hearing and balance, physically opening ligand gated channels. Responds to the binding of chemicals: provides the senses of smell and taste. Responds to changes in temperature: provides the sense of temperature. Responds to light: provides the sense of vision. Responds to extreme mechanical, chemical and thermal stimuli: provides the sense of pain. The cribriform plate region on the ethmoid bone has a lot of foramina: this allows the olfactory nerve fibers to enter the nasal cavity from the cranial. The olfactory region is the area that is involved in smell: the olfactory bulb that is located at the end of the olfactory nerve (i), enters the.
