Introduction
| Receptor types and functions | ||
| Cutaneous Receptors (Fine Touch) | ||
| Meissner’s Corpuscles | Light Touch, Vibration | Mechanoreceptor |
| Merkel’s Discs | Pressure, point localization and 2-point discrimination. | Mechanoreceptor |
| Hair Follicle Endings | Hair movement and direction | Mechanoreceptor |
| Pacinian Corpuscles | Deep touch and vibration | Mechanoreceptor |
| Ruffini Endings | Deep pressure and stretch of skin | Mechanoreceptor |
| Cutaneous Receptors (Course touch) | ||
| Free Nerve Endings | Crude touch, tickle, itch and pressure | Mechanoreceptor |
| Cutaneous Receptors (Temperature) | ||
| Free Nerve Endings | Warm (hot) and cold | Thermoreceptor |
| Cutaneous Receptors (Pain) | ||
| Free nerve endings | Pain and extremes of sensation | Nociceptor (thermal, chemical or mechanical) |
| Musculoskeletal Receptors (Proprioception) | ||
| Muscle Spindles | Changes in muscle length and velocity | Mechanoreceptor |
| Golgi Tendon Organs | Changes in muscle tension | Mechanoreceptor |
| Joint Receptors (Ruffini endings, Paciniform corpuscles and ligament receptors) | Joint position at end ranges, joint movement and ligament tension | Mechanoreceptor |
| Musculoskeletal Receptors (Pain) | ||
| Free nerve endings (multiple) | Pain and extremes of sensation | Nociceptor (thermal, chemical or mechanical) |
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