We received the men and their wives, the men and their mothers, the men and their grandmothers--but, in place of their unmarried daughters, elaborate excuses, offered with a shameless politeness wonderful to see.
Sensory neurons that monitor position and movement of body parts. Respond to degree of stretch of the organs they occupy. Monitor how much organs containing these receptors are stretched. Include muscles, tendons, and joint capsules. They can determine how much force is being applied to your limbs allowing you to pick something up without crushing it or dropping it.
Sensory transduction converts the energy of the stimulus into a receptor or generator potential. The sensory receptor may be a specialized structure at the end of a peripheral neuron or a separate cell that communicates with an afferent neuron by means of a chemical synapse.