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A&P Chapter 10 Flashcards

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________ that allow us to respond to stimuli such as touch, pressure, temperature, and pain?

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Sensory receptors

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The senses are often classified as either?

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General or special senses

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The _______ are those detected by simple microscopic receptors distributed though the body skin, muscles, tendons, joints, and other internal organs of the body.

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General senses

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The ___________ are those detected by the receptors that are grouped in specific areas and associated with complex structures that facilitate these senses.
(Smell, taste, vision, hearing, and equilibrium)

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Special senses

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5
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What is encapsulated or uncapsulated?

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Free of or naked of any such covering

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What’s is sensitive to change in intensity or color of light as in vision

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Photoreceptors

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7
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What are sensitive to presence of certain chemicals such as in taste or smell?

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Chemoreceptors

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8
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What is sensitive to physical injury

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Pain receptors

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9
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What is sensitive to any changes in temperature

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Thermoreceptos

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What is sensitive to mechanical stimuli that change their position or shape

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Mechanoreceptor

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11
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The eye has what receptor?

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Photoreceptors

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12
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The ear is a

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Mechanoreceptor

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13
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The nose is a

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Chemoreceptors

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14
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Taste buds are a ?

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Chemoreceptors

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15
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Touch receptors are distributed closely together over the finger prints by ?

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2-8 mm appart

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16
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What are the palm receptors appart?

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8-12

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17
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The back of the torso is distributed

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40-80 mm

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18
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The difference in which kind of stimuli is detected is called ____ of the sensation

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Mode

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Some of the general sensory receptors found near the point of junction between tendons and muscles and other found deep within the skeleton muscle tissue are called ?

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Proprioceptors

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20
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What detects the color and intensity of light in our external environment

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Vision

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21
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An eye injury is considered as?

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A medical emergency

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22
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The eyeball is a fluid filled sphere having a wall of what three layers

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1) fibrous
2) vascular
3) inner layer

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What is in the fibrous layer of the eye?

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  • sclera

- cornea

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What is in the vascular layer of the eye?

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  • choroid
  • ciliary
  • iris
  • lens
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What is in the inner layer of the eye?

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  • retina
  • optic nerve
  • retinal blood vessel
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26
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The white of the eye is part of the fibrous layer called the ?

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Sclera

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27
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What is the transparent circle on the anterior of the fibrous layer

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The cornea

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28
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Inflammation of the cornea is called

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Keratitis

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29
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A mucous membrane known as _____ lines the eyelids and covers the fibrous layer in from

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Conjunctive

30
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Inflammation of this important membrane is called?

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Conjunctivitis (or pink eye)

31
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The conjunctiva is kept moist by tears secreted by the

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Lacrimal gland

32
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The middle layer of the eyeball is called the ________ because it has a dense network of blood vessels?

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Vascular layer

33
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Most of the vascular layer is made up mostly of the?

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Choroid

34
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The choroid contains a large amount of

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Dark pigment melanin

35
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Several involuntary muscles make up the anterior part of the choroid. Some are in the

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Iris

36
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The iris is what part of the eye

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The blue, brown, green part of an eye

37
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The black cemetery of the iris is really a hole in this doughnut scraped muscle is the

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Pupil

38
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The ___of the eye lies directly behind the pupil

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Lens

39
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The lens is held in place by a ligament attached to an involuntary muscle called the?

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Ciliary muscle

40
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Most of us become ____ as we grow older

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Farsighted

41
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What average age do you start to become farsighted?

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40 years old

42
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What is another name for farsighted?

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Presbyopia or old sightedness

43
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Long time exposure to UV radiation causes the lens to become?

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Hard loses its transparency and become milky looking

44
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What is it called when the eye becomes milky

A

Cataract

45
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The ____ makes up most of the inner eye

A

The retina

46
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The retina contains microscopic photoreceptors cells to detect?

A

Light

47
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____ are the receptors for night vision

A

Rods

48
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____ are the receptors for daytime vision

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Cones

49
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There are three types of cones each on is sensitive to a different color?

A

Read
Green
Blue

50
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There is a yelowish area near the center of the retina is called

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Macula lutes

51
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What contains the greatest concentration of cones of anywhere of the retina?

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Fovea centralis

52
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What is the device used to look into the eyes

A

Ophthalmoscope

53
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What cells are also sensitive to light

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Ganglion cells

54
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What is the name of the watery fluid in front of the lens

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Aqueous humor

55
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What is the name of the jelly like fluid behind the lens

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Vitreous humor

56
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_____ occurs as light passes through the cornea, the aqueous humor, the lens, and the vitreous humor on its way to the retina

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Refraction

57
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If drainage is blocked for any reason the internal pressure within the eye will increase the damage that could lead to blindness. Is called ?

A

Glaucoma

58
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The innermost layer of the retina contains the rods and cones which are the?

A

Photoreceptor cells

59
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The result is a blind spot known as the

A

Optic disk

60
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If our eyes are enlongated the image focuses in front of the retina rather than on it. The retina receives only a FUZZY. Image this is called

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Myopia (nearsightedness)

61
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If our eye balls are shorter than normal the image focuses behind the retina also producing a fuzzy image is called

A

Hyperopia

62
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Color blindness usually an inherited condition is caused by mistakes in producing three chemicals called ?

A

Photopigments

63
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In addition to its role of hearing the ear functions as the sense organ of ?

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Balance or equilibrium

64
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The simulation or “trigger” that activates receptors involved with hearing and equilibrium is called

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Mechanoreceptors

65
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The ear is divided into what anatomical areas

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1- external ear
2- middle ear
3- inner ear

66
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The external ear has two parts called

A
  • auricle (pinnacle)

- external acoustic canal

67
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The auricle is the

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Appendage on the side of the head surrounding the opening of the external acoustic canal

68
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The canal of the ear is a curving tube approx

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2.5 cm (1inch)

69
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The canal of the ear extends into _____ and ends at the ______.

A

Temporal bone

Tympanic (eardrum)

70
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What produces a waxy substance in the ear

A

Ceruminous glands

71
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What is the wax sub substance inside of the ear called

A

Cerumen

72
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A medical device used to see the inside of the ear is called

A

Otoscope

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