Chapter Eight Quest

Question 0

What are special senses

Answer 0

large complex organs located groupings of specialized receptors

Question 1

what are general senses?

Answer 1

microscopic receptors throughout the body

Question 2

What are photoreceptors stimulated by?

Answer 2

light

Question 3

What are chemoreceptors stimulated by?

Answer 3

chemicals

Question 4

What are pain receptors stimulated by?

Answer 4

physical damage or injury

Question 5

What are thermoreceptors stimulated by

Answer 5

changes in temperature

Question 6

What are mechanoreceptors stimulated by?

Answer 6

mechanical stimuli

Question 7

What are propioreceptors stimulated by?

Answer 7

stimulated by movemement of body parts

Question 8

What is the main location of the free nerve endings?

Answer 8

skin and mucosa (epithelial layer)

Question 9

What are the general senses of free nerve ending?

Answer 9

pain, crude touch, temperature, itch, tickle

Question 10

What is the main location of Meissener’s corpuscle ?

Answer 10

skin (in papillae of dermis), fingertips and lips

Question 11

What are the general senses of Meisser’s corpuscle?

Answer 11

fine touch to low frequency vibration

Question 12

Ruffini’s corpuscle’s main location

Answer 12

Skin (dermal layer) and subcutaneous tissue of fingers

Question 13

what are the general senses for Ruffini’s corpuscle

Answer 13

touch and pressure

Question 14

What is the main location of Pacinian corpuscle?

Answer 14

subcutaneous, submucous, tisues, around joints in mammary glands

Question 15

What are the general senses of the pacinian corpuscle?

Answer 15

pressure and high frequency vibration

Question 16

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

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

touch and possibly cold

Question 18

What is the main location of Gogi tendon receptors?

Answer 18

near junctions of tendons and muscles

Question 19

What are the general senses of the golgi tendon receptors ?

Answer 19

proprioception (sense of muscle tension)

Question 20

what is the main location of muscle spindles?

Answer 20

skeletal muscles

Question 21

what are the general senses of muscle spindles?

Answer 21

proprioception (sense of muscle length)

Question 22

Where are general sense organs found?

Answer 22

almost every part of the body

Question 23

Where are the general sense organs concentrated?

Answer 23

in the skin

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What is the specific receptor for the eye?

Answer 25

rods and cones

Question 26

what is the specefic receptor for the ear?

Answer 26

organ of corti

Question 27

what is the specific receptor for the nose?

Answer 27

olfactory cells

Question 28

what is the specifi receptor for the taste bud?

Answer 28

gustory cells

Question 29

What are the types of receptors for the eye?

Answer 29

photoreceptors

Question 30

what are the types of receptors for the ear?

Answer 30

mechanoreceptors

Question 31

what are the types of receptors for the nose?

Answer 31

Chemoreceptors

Question 32

what are the types of receptors for the taste buds?

Answer 32

chemoreceptors

Question 33

what are the three layers of they eye?

Answer 33

sclera chlora retina

Question 34

A brief description of the sclera

Answer 34

the white of the eye

Question 35

A brief description of the choroid?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

a brief description of the retina

Answer 36

contains microscopic photoreceptor cells

Question 37

what is the conjuctiva

Answer 37

mucous membrane

Question 38

what does the lens do?

Answer 38

it helps us see and focus

Question 39

what is the aqueous humor?

Answer 39

Fluid in front of the lens

Question 40

vitreous humor

Answer 40

jelly like substance behind the eye

Question 41

What are rods and cones and what do they do?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

What nerve do nerve impulese leave the eye from?

Answer 42

photoreceptors

Question 43

what is another name for optic disc

Answer 43

blind spot

Question 44

what does not exist in a blind spot

Answer 44

rods or cones

Question 45

What function besides hearingis the ear responsible for

Answer 45

balance

Question 46

What are the three divisions of the ear?

Answer 46

External middle inner

Question 47

where is the auricle located

Answer 47

side of the head

Question 48

what is another name for typanic membrane

Answer 48

ear drum

Question 49

what does the ceriminous gland produce?

Answer 49

cereum

Question 50

Name the three bones found in middle ear

Answer 50

Malleus incus stapes

Question 51

What does the eustachian tube connect the middle ear to?

Answer 51

the throat to middle ear

Question 52

what is perilmph

Answer 52

watery fluid

Question 53

what are cristae ampullaris

Answer 53

receptors

Question 54

Chemoreceptors are called

Answer 54

taste buds

Question 55

whatis the name of the special cells in taste buds

Answer 55

gustatory cells

Question 56

what are the four primary taste sensations

Answer 56

sweet salty sour bitter

Question 57

what other sense play a role in our taste?

Answer 57

smell

Question 58

Smell | THe chemoreceptors are called

Answer 58

olfactory receptors

Question 59

Each olfactory cells has specialized _______ that detectssdifferentodors

Answer 59

cilia

Question 60

Are olfactory receptors sensitive to smell?

Answer 60

yess

Question 61

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

Answer 61

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