Stretch receptor

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Stretch receptors are mechanoreceptors responsive to distention of the thorax, which are neurologically linked to the medulla via efferent nerve cells, joining them to the expiratory cells present there. Stretch receptors are also found in other organs and muscles.

Types include:

• Golgi organ
• Muscle spindle
• Pulmonary stretch receptors

External links

• stretch+receptors at eMedicine Dictionary
• r_05/12696237 at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
• MeSH Stretch+receptor

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