| A | B |
|---|
| Receptor Potential | A receptor develops in the receptor's membrane |
| Special Senses | Responsible for smell, taste, vision, hearing, and equilibrium |
| General Sense Organ | Consist of microscopic receptors widely distributed throughout the body |
| Thermoreceptors | Activated by a change in temperature |
| Krause's end bulbs | One of two secondary thermoreceptors |
| Ruffini's corpuscles | One of two secondary thermoreceptors |
| Root hair plexuses | A web-like arrangement of free nerve endings |
| Merkel discs | Responsible for mediating sensations to light touch |
| Pacinian corpuscles | Mediate sensations to crude touch |
| Meissner's corpuscle | Egg-shaped mechanoreceptors |
| Muscle spindles | One of two types of stretch receptors |
| Golgi tendon receptors | One of two tyoes of stretch receptors |
| Gamma Motor neurons | Capable of contraction when stimulated by efferent impulses |
| alpha motor Neurons | Stimulated to contract by effernt impulses |
| Eplithelial support cells | Yellow in color and make up olfactory epithelial |
| Basal cells | Replace chemoreceptors on a regular basis |
| Granule cells | Rapid adaptation of olfactory sensations |
| Taste Buds | Sense organs on the back of the tongue |
| Gustatory | Also known as taste stimuli |
| papillae | Small elevated projections on the tongue |
