KROK 1 2014 – Question 127 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A female patient, having visited the factory premises with lots of dust in the air for the first time, has got cough and burning pain in the throat. What respiratory receptors, when irritated, cause this kind of reaction?
- A. Proprioceptors of respiratory muscles
- B. Stretch receptors of lungs
- C. Thermoreceptors
- D. Juxtacapillary (J) receptors
- E. Irritant receptors
Hint
Ask where the receptors are located (airway wall, alveolar capillaries, muscle or lung parenchyma) and what stimulus each normally senses; dust on the mucosa must match one of them.
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