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Chapter 40, Problem 5FIB
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Special “specific receptors” and organs are the special senses that are associated with touch, hearing, vision, equilibrium, taste, and smell. The special senses: taste, vision, hearing, smell, and touch carry stimuli from the sensory receptors and transmit these impulses to the brain for interpretation.
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