CH. 18: Senses - EARS

Question 1

receptors for this sense are found in the skin, muscles, joints, and internal organs

Answer 1

pain

Question 2

tactile sense, located in the skin

Answer 2

touch

Question 3

beneath the skin and deeper tissues

Answer 3

pressure or deep touch

Question 4

locates in the skin and in the hypothalamus

Answer 4

temperature

Question 5

awareness of body position found in muscles, tendons, and joints

Answer 5

proprioception

Question 6

senses are divided according to whether they are widely ________ or __________ in special sense organs

Answer 6

distributed; localized

Question 7

special senses are localized w/n the complex sense organs in the _________

Answer 7

head

Question 8

located in taste buds on the tongue; detect only sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami

Answer 8

gustation (taste)

Question 9

receptors in the nose

Answer 9

olfaction (smell)

Question 10

located in the ear; respond to movement created by sound waves as they travel through the ear

Answer 10

hearing receptors

Question 11

located in the ear; activated by changes in the position of the cells in the inner ear as we move

Answer 11

equilibrium receptors

Question 12

light-sensitive and located deep within the eye

Answer 12

vision receptors

Question 13

sensory nerve ending or a specialized structure associated with a sensory nerve that responds to a stimulus

Answer 13

sensory receptor

Question 14

-esthesia

Answer 14

sensation

Question 15

-algesia

Answer 15

pain

Question 16

-osmia

Answer 16

sense of smell

Question 17

-geusia

Answer 17

sense of taste

Question 18

para-

Answer 18

abnormal

Question 19

waxy material that protects the ear and helps to prevent infection

Answer 19

cerumen

Question 20

consists of the pinna, external auditory canal (meatus), and tympanic membrane (eardrum)

Answer 20

outer ear

Question 21

3 ossicles of the middle ear, named for its shape

Answer 21

• malleus (hammer)
• incus (anvil)
• stapes (stirrup)

Question 22

connects the middle ear with the nasopharynx and serves to equalize pressure b/w the outer ear and the middle ear

Answer 22

auditory tube

Question 23

described as a labyrinth, which means “maze”; consists of an outer bony framework containing a similarly shaped membranous channel; entire labyrinth is filled with _________

Answer 23

inner ear;

fluid

Question 24

it is shaped like a snail’s shell; has the specialized spiral organ (organ of Corti) for hearing

Answer 24

cochlea

Question 25

sound waves enter the cochlea from the base of the __________ through an opening, the __________ window, and leave through another opening, the _____________ window.

Answer 25

stapes;
oval;
round

Question 26

where sense of equilibrium is localized; consists of the vestibule and 3 projecting semicircular canals

Answer 26

vestibular apparatus

Question 27

special cells w/n the vestibular apparatus respond to __________

Answer 27

movement

Question 28

nerve impulses are transmitted from the ear to the brain by way of the __________ _____________ (8th cranial nerve) aka the acoustic or auditory nerve

Answer 28

vestibulocochlear nerve

Question 29

_________ branch of the auditory nerve transmits impulses for _________ from the cochlea

Answer 29

cochlear; hearing

Question 30

________ branch transmits impulses concerned with _________ from the vestibular apparatus

Answer 30

vestibular; equilibrium

Question 31

audi/o

Answer 31

hearing

Question 32

acous, acus, cus

Answer 32

sound, hearing

Question 33

ot/o

Answer 33

ear

Question 34

myring/o

Answer 34

tympanic membrane

Question 35

tympan/o

Answer 35

tympanic cavity (middle ear), tympanic membrane

Question 36

salping/o

Answer 36

tube, auditory tube

Question 37

staped/o, stapedi/o

Answer 37

stapes

Question 38

labyrinth/o

Answer 38

labyrinth (inner ear)

Question 39

vestibul/o

Answer 39

vestibule, vestibular apparatus

Question 40

cochle/o

Answer 40

cochlea (of inner ear)