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High conduction rate?
A FIBERS
Mechanoreceptors?
*A SENSORY RECEPTOR THAT RESPONDS TO MECHANICAL PRESSURE OF DISTORTION

*4 TYPES OF MECHANORECEPTORS
1) PACINIAN CORPUSCLES
2) MEISSNER'S CORPUSCLES
3) MERKEL'S DISC'S
4) RUFFINI CORPUSCLES
Bare nerve endings?
*A FIBERS
*JOINT RECEPTORS, MECHANORECPTORS OF SOFT TISSUE, EXTEROCEPTORS OF PAIN, COLD, AND TOUCH
Golgi tendon organ?
*A FIBERS
*RESPONDS TO TENSION/STRETCH OF A TENDON
Muscle spindle (secondary afferent endings)?
*A FIBERS
*RECEPTORS THAT RESPOND TO CHANGE IN LENGTH
Muscle spindle (primary afferent ending)?
*A FIBERS
*PRIMARY FOR LOW-THRESHOLD STRETCH
Monitor change in the external environment?
EXTEROCEPTORS
These fibers are either poorly myelinated or unmyelinated?
C FIBERS
Size of fibers listed in order?
*A FIBERS (LARGE FIBERS)
Which fibers are myelinated and unmylinated?
*MYELINATED (A FIBERS & B FIBERS)
*UNMYELINATED (C FIBERS)
The nervous system that lies outside the brain and spinal cord?
PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
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