Mechanoreceptors and Chemoreceptors

• mechanoreceptors 


  detect mechanical stimulation
• thermoreceptors


  detect changes in temperature (Krause's endbulbs/corpuscles)
• nocireceptors


  pain, all free nerve endings
• photoreceptors 


  rods and cones of retina
• chemoreceptors


  responsible for senses of taste and smell
• merkel's discs


  small, glabrous, slow, pressure
• meissner's corpuscles 


  small, glabrous, rapid, indentation
• Ruffini corpuscles 


  large, hairy and glabrous, slow, stretching
• Pacinian corpuscles 


  large, hairy and glabrous, rapid, vibration
• golgi tendon organ 


  detects muscle tension