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Chap 9: Senses WS Flashcards

1
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Anything that causes a response in a tissue.

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STIMULUS

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Conscious awareness of a stimulus

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SENSATION

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The perception that a sensation originates from the part of the
body stimulated

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PROJECTION

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Includes touch, pressure, pain, temperature, vibration, itch, and proprioception

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GENERAL SENSES

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Includes smell, taste, sight, hearing, and balance.

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SPECIAL SENSES

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3
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Respond to pain, temperature, and itch

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FREE NERVE ENDINGS

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4
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Detect light touch and superficial pressure; located in the
epidermis; a capsule surrounding a nerve ending

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MERKEL’S DISKS

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5
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Respond to fine, discriminative touch; located just deep to the
epidermis

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MEISSNER’S CORPUSCLES

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Monitor continuous touch or pressure in the skin

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Ruffini’s end-organs

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7
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Detect deep pressure, vibration, and position (proprioception);
located in tendons and joints.

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Pacinian corpuscles

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8
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Specialized cells in the epithelium of the nasal cavity; airborne
molecules bind to receptors on these cells, producing action
potentials

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Olfactory neurons

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9
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Formed by axons from the olfactory neurons; pass through the
cribriform plate

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Olfactory nerve

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Formed by axons from the olfactory neurons; pass through the
cribriform plate.

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Olfactory nerve

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11
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Receives the olfactory nerves.

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Olfactory bulb

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12
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Relays action potentials from the olfactory bulb to the brain

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Olfactory tract

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13
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Taste buds located on this part of the tongue respond most
strongly to bitter tastes.

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Back of tongue

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Olfactory cortex

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Area of the frontal and temporal lobes that receives the
olfactory tract.

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13
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Sensory structure that detects taste stimuli

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Taste bud

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14
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Enlargements on the surface of the tongue; contain taste buds

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Papillae

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14
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Makeup a taste bud; each has taste hairs that extend through ataste pore.

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Taste cell

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15
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Taste sensations from the anterior two thirds of the tongue are
conducted by this nerve

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Facial nerve

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16
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Taste buds located on this part of the tongue respond most
strongly to sweet and salty tastes

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Tip of tongue

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17
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Taste buds located on this part of the tongue respond most
strongly to sour tastes

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Side of tongue

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18
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Prevent perspiration from running down the forehead into the
eye.

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Eyebrows

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18
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Produces tear

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Lacrimal gland

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19
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Protect the eye from foreign objects and lubricate the eye by
spreading tear

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Eyelids

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Thin, transparent membrane that covers the anterior surface of
the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids.

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Conjunctiva

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21
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Collect excess tears from the medial corner of the eye

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Lacrimal canaliculi

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22
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Empties excess tears into the nasal cavity

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Nasolacrimal duct

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23
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Outer layer of the eye, consisting of the sclera and cornea

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Fibrous tunic

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23
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Move the eyeball

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Extrinsic eye muscles

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24
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Middle layer of the eye, consisting of choroid, ciliary body, and
iris

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Vascular tunic

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Firm, opaque, white, outer posterior five sixths of the eye;
maintains the shape of the eye and provides an attachment site
for the extrinsic eye muscles

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Sclera

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25
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Contains ciliary muscles (smooth muscles) that attach by
suspensory ligaments to the lens.

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Ciliary body

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25
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Inner layer of the eye, consisting of the retina

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Nervous tunic

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26
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Avascular, transparent, anterior one sixth of the eye; allows
light to enter the eye and also refracts light.

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Cornea

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27
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Vascular tunic associated with the scleral portion of the eye;
prevents light reflection.

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Choroid

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28
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Flexible, biconvex, transparent disc

28
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Contains smooth muscle that regulates the amount of light
entering the eye

29
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The opening in the iris through which light passes

30
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Photopigment in rods that breaks down when struck by light;
vitamin A is necessary for its manufacture; lack of vitamin A
results in night blindness

30
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Outer part of the retina; its black color prevents light reflection

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Pigmented retina

31
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Inner part of the retina containing rods and cones

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Sensory retina

32
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Photoreceptor cells that are very sensitive to light and function
in dim light.

32
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Photoreceptor cells responsible for color vision

33
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Small yellow spot near the center of the posterior retina

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Macula lutea

33
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Small pit with the highest concentration of cones and the
greatest ability to most clearly detect images; located in the
macula lutea.

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Fovea centralis

33
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Blind spot of the eye; place where blood vessels and the optic
nerve pass through the wall of the eye.

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Optic disc

33
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Fills the anterior compartment of the eye; maintains pressure,
refracts light, and provides nutrients to the inner eye surface.

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Aqueous humor

33
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Fills the posterior compartment of the eye; helps to maintain
pressure within the eye and holds the lens and retina in place

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Vitreous humor

33
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Bending of light rays as they pass from air into some other,
more dense substance.

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Refraction

34
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Type of lens that causes light rays to diverge

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Concave lens

35
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Type of lens that causes light rays to converge

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Convex lens

36
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Where converging light rays cross

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Focal point

36
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Act of causing light rays to converge to form an image.

37
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Bending of light rays as they pass from air into some other,
more dense substance

37
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Part of the eye that produces the greatest amount of
convergence of light.

37
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Part of the eye that accomplishes fine adjustments in focusing
by changing shape

37
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Process of allowing the lens to assume a more spherical
(convex) shape; enables the eye to focus objects that are closer
than 20 feet

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Accommodation

37
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Condition of the ciliary muscles during accommodation

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Contracted

38
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Condition of the ciliary muscles for distant vision (greater than
20 feet).

39
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Leaves the eye and passes through the optic foramen

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Optic nerve

40
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Image seen by each eye

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Visual field

40
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Point where some of the axons in the optic nerves cross to
opposite sides of the brain

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Optic chiasma

41
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Part of the occipital lobes of the brain responsible for vision

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Visual cortex

41
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Axons between the optic chiasma and the thalamus

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Optic tract

42
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Axons extending from the thalamus to the visual cortex

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Optic radiations

42
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Passageway that leads to the tympanic membrane

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External auditory meatus

43
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Fleshy part of the external ear on the outside of the head.

44
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Modified sebum, commonly called earwax, that helps to
prevent foreign objects from reaching the tympanic membrane

45
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Membrane-covered opening between the middle and inner ear

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Round window

45
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Thin membrane that separates the external and middle ear;
vibrates in response to sound waves; also called the eardrum

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Tympanic membrane

46
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Opening between the middle and inner ear; contains the stapes.

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Oval window

47
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Ear bones that transmit and amplify vibrations of the tympanic
membrane to the oval window; the malleus, incus and stapes

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Auditory ossicles

48
Q

Spaces in the temporal bone that are connected to the middle
ear

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Mastoid air cells

49
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Structure that enables air pressure to be equalized between the
outside air and the middle ear; the eustachian tube

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Auditory tube

50
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interconnecting tunnels and chambers within the temporal
bone.

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Osseous labyrinth

51
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Membranes that are found within the osseous labyrinth

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Membranous labyrinth

52
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Fluid within the membranous labyrinth

53
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Perilymph

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Fluid between the osseous and membranous labyrinth

54
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Part of the inner ear involved with hearing

55
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Two parts of the inner ear involved with balance

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  • Vestibule
  • Semicircular
56
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Membrane separating the scala vestibuli and the cochlear duct

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Vestibular membrane

57
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Membrane separating the scala tympani and the cochlear duct

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Tectorial membrane

58
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The space that connects to the oval window

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Scala vestibuli

59
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The space that connects to the round window

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Scala tympani

60
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The space that contains the spiral organ

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Cochlear duct

61
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The spiral organ rests on the basilar membrane and its hair cells
extend to this membrane

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Tectorial membrane

62
Q

Type of equilibrium associated with the semicircular canals and
involves evaluating the change in rate of head movements

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Kinetic equilibrium

62
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Type of equilibrium associated with the vestibule and involves
evaluating the position of the head relative to gravit

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Static equilibrium

63
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The two chambers of the vestibule

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  • Utricle
  • Saccule
63
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Specialized epithelium of the vestibule; consists of hair cells
embedded in a gelatinous mass that contains otoliths

63
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Specialized epithelium found in the ampulla; consists of hair
cells embedded in a gelatinous mass called the cupula

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Crista ampullaris

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