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Sensory receptors are transducers that convert some form of energy into a change in electrical potential across a neuron's membrane. Mechanoreceptors specifically respond to mechanical energy, or movement. Mechanoreceptors are found in many bodily...
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Mechanoreceptor : Biological Psychology
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A receptor for the detection of mechanical force: a MECHANOSENSORY pathway is one that is involved in the sensory detection of mechanical force. For example, see HAIR CELLS. See also: sensory transduction;...
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A mechanoreceptor is a sensory receptor that responds to mechanical pressure or distortion. There are four main types in the glabrous skin of humans: Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel's discs, and Ruffini corpuscles. There are also...


 

Mechanoreceptor

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