Ch 18 Lec 2 - General & Special Senses Flashcards
chemoreceptors monitor chemical composition of body blank
fluids
respond to substances dissolved in surrounding fluids
chemoreceptors
chemoreceptors are found inside the CNS and the blank
medulla
chemoreceptors are found in these two bodies
aortic, carotid
sense of smell
olfaction
olfactory organ is located within the blank cavity on either side of nasal septum
nasal
olfactory organ covers the blank of the ethmoid
cribriform plate
olfactory organ made up of olfactory blank
epithelium
three things in the olfactory epithelium
olfactory receptors, supporting cells, basal cells
olfactory cells are covered in secretions from blank
olfactory glands
olfactory receptors are highly modified blank neurons
bipolar
olfactory receptors have blank that extend into mucus secreted by olfactory glands
cilia
odorous particles dissolve into mucus and cause blank
depolarization
olfactory nerve does not go through blank
thalamus
smells can trigger blank
strong emotion
smells are interpreted in blank and blank lobes
temporal, frontal