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.
These cells are specialized neurons (A. visual receptors) or specialized epithelial cells (B. auditory receptors) that generate receptor potentials and contain synaptic vesicles. There is only one type of sensory receptor cell in the somatosensory system, the Merkel cells, and they are found only in skin.