Match Each Term to the Correct Descriptor

question 72

Multiple Choice

Match each term to the correct descriptor. Terms may be used more than once or not at all.
-Deep cutaneous mechanoreceptors for tissue stretch

• A)mechanoreceptors
• B)chemoreceptors
• C)Ruffini endings
• D)Meissner's corpuscles
• E)glabrous
• F)Merkel disk receptors
• G)Pacinian corpuscles

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Definitions:

Depleted Uranium

Uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium, used in military applications and for counterweights.

Radiation Type

Describes the various forms of energy emitted from a source, such as alpha, beta, gamma rays, and X-rays.

Decay Particles

The smaller particles or energy emitted from a nucleus during radioactive decay.

Half-life

The time required for a quantity to reduce to half its initial value, commonly used in nuclear physics to describe the decay of radioactive substances.