sensory neuron
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A free nerve ending, as its name implies, is an unencapsulated dendrite of a sensory neuron.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
For example, the knee reflex that a doctor tests during a routine physical is controlled by a single synapse between a sensory neuron and a motor neuron.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Each sensory neuron has one projection—with a sensory receptor ending in skin, muscle, or sensory organs—and another that synapses with a neuron in the dorsal spinal cord.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Disturbance of these dendrites by compressing them or bending them opens gated ion channels in the plasma membrane of the sensory neuron, changing its electrical potential.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
This occurs when a stimulus changes the cell membrane potential of a sensory neuron.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
