CDS 836 Exam 1- Fast Facts Test Study
Guide
4 types of TMD: - Answer 1. masticatory muscle disorders
2. TMJ disorders
3. chronic mandibular hypomobility
4. growth disorders
The individual's experience of pain and suffering is NOT determined by the amount of
tissue damage, but by: (2) - Answer 1. the threat of the injury
2. the attention drawn to the injury
The _______ brain is responsible for reflex (fast) pain as a protective mechanism -
Answer reptilian brain
2 structures that make up the primitive reptilian brain: - Answer 1. spinal cord
2. medullary structures
The ________ brain is responsible for entities such as emotion, behavior, instinct, and
drive - Answer mammalian brain
In addition to the spinal cord and medullary structures, the mammalian brain contains
the: - Answer limbic structures (pain/pleasure center)
The ________ brain is responsible for the motivational response (reason, meaning,
consequence) - Answer primate brain
In addition to the spinal cord, medullary structures, and limbic structures, the prtimate
brain contains the: - Answer cortex
__________ is defined as the mechanism that provides for the reception of noxious or
potentially noxious stimuli into neural impulses that are transmitted to the CNS - Answer
nociception
_________ is defined as the subject's conscious perception of modulated nociceptive
impulses that generate an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated
with actual or potential tissue damage - Answer pain
_________ is defined as the emotional response to pain and other factors that reflects the
subject's anticipated impending and future threat to his well-being - Answer suffering
_________ is defined as the subject's audible and visible actions that communicate his
suffering to others. - Answer pain behavior
, __________ are receptors that receive sensory input from the body's "envelope" - Answer
exteroceptors
5 examples of exteroceptors and their functions: - Answer 1. Meissner's corpuscles:
tactile to skin
2. Merkel's corpuscles: tactile to mucosa
3. Ruffin's corpuscles: pressure and warmth
4. Krause's corpuscles: cold
5. Free nerve endings: pain and touch
__________ are receptors that receive sensory input from the body's musculoskeletal
system - Answer proprioceptors
Proprioceptors provide the body with information regarding: (3) - Answer 1. presence
2. position
3. movement
5 examples of proprioceptors and their functions: - Answer 1. Muscle spindles: stretch
2. Golgi tendon organs: tension
3. Pacinian corpuscles: pressure
4. Periodontal mechanoreceptors
5. Free nerve endings: pain
__________ are receptors that receive sensory input from the body's "supply system" -
Answer interoceptors
2 examples of interoceptors and their functions: - Answer 1. Pacinian corpuscles:
pressure
2. Free nerve endings: pain
Which type of receptors provide information that can be sensed at a conscious level? -
Answer exteroceptors
sometimes proprioceptors (chiefly unconscious)
Which type of receptors provide information that is sensed at an unconscious level? -
Answer interoceptors
sometimes proprioceptors (chiefly unconscious)
Pain from which type of receptors generally stimulate action from the individual? Which
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