Sense Organs

Ratcliffe, N. A.

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N. A. Ratcliffe²

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Sense organs make an animal aware of what is going on in the internal and external environments. The nerve fibres from the cranial and spinal organs end in receptors in numerous tissues in the body, and these receptors may be classified as:

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Department of Zoology, University College of Swansea, UK
N. A. Ratcliffe (Reader in Zoology)

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Ratcliffe, N.A. (1982). Sense Organs. In: Practical Illustrated Histology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86060-9_17

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