exhaustion
~ result from depletion of body resources during resistance phase
disease can result from inhibiting the
~ immune system by stress
pituitary gigantism
~ Hypersecretion of GH during childhood
acromegaly
~ hypersecretion of growth hormone during adulthood
pituitary dwarfism
~ hypo...
✓✓~ pain;fast (acute sharp stabbing) and slow (chronic- dull achey)
, corpuscles for touch
✓✓~ Meissner's corpuscle - light touch, low frequency vibration
free nerve endings ( root hair plexuses)
✓✓~ sense movement on skin by movement of hair
Tyle I Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors
✓✓~ merkel cells- pressure
Type II Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors
✓✓~ Ruffini's corpuscle - light and deep pressure (baroreceptors)
lamellated corpuscles
✓✓~ pacinian corpuscles - vibration
complex tactile sensations
✓✓~ combination of the previous nerve endings- give surfaces test textures
Visible light is based on
✓✓~ wavelength
the fibrous tunic contain
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