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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: 10.22.2013 In Class, a force due to deformation on Merkel's disk receptors, cotton swab causing a force due to deformation, patient's skin is touched with cotton swab, mechano-sensitive channels in slow-adapting afferent fibers, Merkel's disk receptors which are mechanoreceptors, Aβ type with velocity 30-70 m/s, mechanoreceptors in the basal layer of the epidermis, small, defined area on the patient's skin, the brainstem causing patient, the basal layer of the epidermis transduced by mechano-sensitive channels, 30-70 m/s considered "Fast" fiber, patient to report pressure, Aβ type of diameter 8-13 micrometers, slow-adapting afferent fibers which are Aβ type, pressure on a small, defined area, Merkel's disk receptors in the basal layer of the epidermis, slow-adapting afferent fibers which travel to the brainstem