Receptors

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Sensory receptors

Dendrites that react to external or internal stimuli in sensory organs.

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Cutaneous sensations

Impulses produced in the skin, including touch, heat, cold, pressure, and pain.

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Touch receptors

Various types of receptors in the skin, such as free nerve endings, Meissner corpuscles, Merkel's disks, hair follicle receptors, Ruffini's corpuscles, and Pacinian corpuscles.

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External Anatomy of the Eye

Structures of the eye's external anatomy, including eyelids, conjunctiva, lacrimal glands, and tear drainage system.

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Internal Anatomy of the Eye

Tissue layers of the eye (sclera, choroid, retina), cornea, iris, pupil, lens, aqueous humor, and vitreous humor.

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Vision

Photoreceptors in the retina (rods and cones), retinal pigment epithelium, fovea centralis, blind spot, and near-sightedness and far-sightedness.

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Hearing

Collection and transfer of sound vibrations through the ear, auricle, external auditory canal, ossicles (malleus, incus, stapes), oval window, cochlea, perilymph, basilar membrane, and organ of Corti.

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Equilibrium and Chemical Senses

Maculae for static equilibrium, otoliths, semicircular canals for dynamic equilibrium, chemoreceptors for smell (olfactory receptors) and taste (gustatory cells), and papillae on the tongue.