WQ Chapter 20 - General Senses
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Pressure, pain, and temperature receptors in the skin are:
exteroceptors
Which type of general sense receptor detects pressure changes in walls of blood vessels and in portions of the digestive, reproductive and urinary tracts?
mechanoreceptors
Potentially damaging stimuli that result in pain are selectively detected by:
nociceptors
Which of these types of receptors responds to pain stimuli?
nociceptors
____occurs when a receptor becomes so accustomed to the stimulation that it stops gathering impulses.
sensory adaptation
