Template:Somatosensory system

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v • d • e Nervous system, receptors: somatosensory system Medial lemniscus Touch/mechanoreceptors: Pacinian corpuscles – vibration • Meissner's corpuscles – light touch • Merkel's discs – pressure • Ruffini endings • Free nerve endings – pain • Hair cells • Baroreceptor Proprioception: Golgi organ – tension/length • Muscle spindle – velocity of change (Intrafusal muscle fiber • Nuclear chain fiber • Nuclear bag fiber) Spinothalamic tract Pain: Nociception and Nociceptors Temperature: Thermoreceptors

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