9: Senses Flashcards
Photoreceptors
Rods- black and white, see in dark
Comes- need light, color, blue/green/red
Sensory adaption
Getting used to a cold swimming pool
6 general sense
Temp Pain Touch Pressure Vibration Proprioception
5 special senses
Olfaction (smell) Gustation (taste) Vision Hearing Equilibrium (balance)
4 general receptors
Nociceptor- pain
Thermo- temp
Mechano
Chemo
3 Mechanoreceptor
Tactile receptor (lamellated/ pacinian)
Baroreceptor
Proprioreceptor
6 baroreceptors
Carotid Aortic Lung Digestive Colon Urinary
2 chemo receptors
Carotid
Aortic
What is part of the inner layer of the eye wall
Retina
What cranial nerves are responsible for equilibrium
Vestibular
Vestibule
Sensation for gravity and linear acceleration
Semicircular canals
Rotational acceleration
Aka vestibular complex
Responsible for Balance
Cochlea
Spiral shaped
Sensory for hearing
Nociceptor
Pain
Thermoreceptor
Temp
Chemoreceptor
pH and CO2
Fast pain
Prickling
Localized
Transmitted through myelinated axons
Slow pain
Aching
General area
Transmitted through unmyelinated axons
Carotid bodies
CO2 CO PH
N9
Aortic bodies
CO2 CO PH
N10
Olfactory pathway (5)
Olfactory epithelium Olfactory nerve fibers (N1) Olfactory bulb Olfactory tract CNS
Blind spot
Optic disc
Inferior Rectus
Down
Medial Rectus
In or cross eyed
Superior Rectus
Look up
Lateral Rectus
Look to side
Inner layer of eye
Retina
Neural part
Pigmented part
Myopia
Near sighted
Hyperopia
Far sighted
Lens focus far away
Muscles relax to flatten the lens
Lens focus for close objects
Muscles contract to round lens
External ear function
Collect sound waves
Middle ear function
Amplify sound
Internal ear function
Sensory organs for hearing and equilibrium
Structures of external ear (3)
Auricle (ear)
Elastic cartilage (pockets in fat)
External acoustic meatus (canal)
Structures of middle ear (4)
Tympanic membrane (ear drum) Auditory ossicles (little bones) Tympanic cavity (drains to nose) Oval window
Structures of inner ear (7)
Round window Vestibule (head of snail) Auditory tube (drains to nose) Cochlea (snail swirl) Bony labyrinth (covering of all bone) Nerves 7 and 8 Semi circular canals (vestibule to temporal bone)
Another name for auditory tube
Eustachian tube
Connects middle ear to pharynx
3 auditory ossicles
malleus, incus, and stapes
Bony labyrinth function
Cochlea for hearing
The rest for balance and proprioception