Define adaptation as it relates to sensory function. What types of mechanoreceptors adapt?
What will be an ideal response?
Some sensory receptors, known as rapidly adapting receptors, respond rapidly with high intensity to a stimulus. While these receptors are important for the initial detection of stimuli, they ignore ongoing stimuli. Thus, they will cease to create action potentials even with a continued stimulus. This concept is known as adaptation as it relates to sensory receptors. Tactile corpuscles and lamellated corpuscles are rapidly adapting receptors.
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A) diabetic ketoacidosis. B) acute hyperglycemia. C) blood glucose above 500 mg/dL. D) a slow onset of hyperglycemia.
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