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Chapter Eight Quest Flashcards

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What are special senses

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large complex organs located groupings of specialized receptors

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what are general senses?

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microscopic receptors throughout the body

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What are photoreceptors stimulated by?

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light

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What are chemoreceptors stimulated by?

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chemicals

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What are pain receptors stimulated by?

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physical damage or injury

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What are thermoreceptors stimulated by

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changes in temperature

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What are mechanoreceptors stimulated by?

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mechanical stimuli

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What are propioreceptors stimulated by?

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stimulated by movemement of body parts

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What is the main location of the free nerve endings?

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skin and mucosa (epithelial layer)

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What are the general senses of free nerve ending?

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pain, crude touch, temperature, itch, tickle

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What is the main location of Meissener’s corpuscle ?

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skin (in papillae of dermis), fingertips and lips

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What are the general senses of Meisser’s corpuscle?

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fine touch to low frequency vibration

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Ruffini’s corpuscle’s main location

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Skin (dermal layer) and subcutaneous tissue of fingers

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what are the general senses for Ruffini’s corpuscle

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touch and pressure

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What is the main location of Pacinian corpuscle?

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subcutaneous, submucous, tisues, around joints in mammary glands

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What are the general senses of the pacinian corpuscle?

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pressure and high frequency vibration

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what is the main location of Krause’s end-bulbs?

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Skin (dermal layer) subcutaneous tissue, muscosa of lips, eyelids and external genitals

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What are the general senses of krause’s end bulbs?

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touch and possibly cold

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What is the main location of Gogi tendon receptors?

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near junctions of tendons and muscles

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What are the general senses of the golgi tendon receptors ?

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proprioception (sense of muscle tension)

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what is the main location of muscle spindles?

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skeletal muscles

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what are the general senses of muscle spindles?

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proprioception (sense of muscle length)

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Where are general sense organs found?

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almost every part of the body

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Where are the general sense organs concentrated?

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in the skin

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Explain what make proprioceptors a little different. Where are they found?

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They are receptors in the tendons and because of this they lare located in the skeletal muscles

25
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What is the specific receptor for the eye?

A

rods and cones

26
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what is the specefic receptor for the ear?

A

organ of corti

27
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what is the specific receptor for the nose?

A

olfactory cells

28
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what is the specifi receptor for the taste bud?

A

gustory cells

29
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What are the types of receptors for the eye?

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photoreceptors

30
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what are the types of receptors for the ear?

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mechanoreceptors

31
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what are the types of receptors for the nose?

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Chemoreceptors

32
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what are the types of receptors for the taste buds?

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chemoreceptors

33
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what are the three layers of they eye?

A

sclera
chlora
retina

34
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A brief description of the sclera

A

the white of the eye

35
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A brief description of the choroid?

A

the part of the eye that parents the scattering of light that enters the eye

36
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a brief description of the retina

A

contains microscopic photoreceptor cells

37
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what is the conjuctiva

A

mucous membrane

38
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what does the lens do?

A

it helps us see and focus

39
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what is the aqueous humor?

A

Fluid in front of the lens

40
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vitreous humor

A

jelly like substance behind the eye

41
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What are rods and cones and what do they do?

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Rods are receptors located in the retina that are responsible for night vision . Cones are receptor cells located in retina cells stimulated by light

42
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What nerve do nerve impulese leave the eye from?

A

photoreceptors

43
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what is another name for optic disc

A

blind spot

44
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what does not exist in a blind spot

A

rods or cones

45
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What function besides hearingis the ear responsible for

A

balance

46
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What are the three divisions of the ear?

A

External
middle
inner

47
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where is the auricle located

A

side of the head

48
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what is another name for typanic membrane

A

ear drum

49
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what does the ceriminous gland produce?

A

cereum

50
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Name the three bones found in middle ear

A

Malleus
incus
stapes

51
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What does the eustachian tube connect the middle ear to?

A

the throat to middle ear

52
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what is perilmph

A

watery fluid

53
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what are cristae ampullaris

A

receptors

54
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Chemoreceptors are called

A

taste buds

55
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whatis the name of the special cells in taste buds

A

gustatory cells

56
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what are the four primary taste sensations

A

sweet
salty
sour
bitter

57
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what other sense play a role in our taste?

A

smell

58
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Smell

THe chemoreceptors are called

A

olfactory receptors

59
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Each olfactory cells has specialized _______ that detectssdifferentodors

A

cilia

60
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Are olfactory receptors sensitive to smell?

A

yess

61
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What happens to odors we initially notice the longer we are around those doors

A

We become accustomed to them and adapt so we don’t notice

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