Chapter14 Flashcards
Route of Sound Waves
- Sound waves vibrate the tympanic membrane
- Auditory ossicles vibrate. Pressure amplified
- pressure waves created by stapes pushing on the oval window move through fluid in the scala vestibuli
4a. Sounds w Frequencies belowing hearing travel through helicotrema and don’t excite hair cells
4b. vibrate basilar membrane and deflecting hairs on inner hair cells.
Parts of Vascular Layer
Choroid Region - Supplies blood to all layers of eyeball, brown pigment absorbs light to prevent light scattering. Ciliary body - Smooth Ciliary muscles control lens shape, capillaries of ciliary processes secrete fluid.
Iris - Colored part of eye
Ascending Pathways
First-Order Neuron: Conducts impulses from cutaneous receptors;
Second-order Neuron: Interneuron. Cell Body in dorsal horn of spinal cord or medulla Axons to thalamus or cerebellum.
Third-order Neuron: Interneuron
Lacrimal Apparatus and What are lacrimal secretions
Saline, mucus, antibodies, lysozyme (TEARS), will drain to nasal cavity
A Small Subset of ganglion cells in retina contain
Melanopsin (circadian pigment) which project to pretectal nuclei and suprachiasmatic nucleus
Tract to brain
Olfactory receptor cells synapse with mitral cells in olfactory bulbs then via olfactory tracts to piriform lobe of olfactory cortex, some to frontal lobe, hypothalamus, amygdala, and regions of limbic sys
Taste Buds
Gustatory Epithelial cells: taste cells, microvilli are receptors. Basal Epithelial cells: dynamic stem cells that divide every 7-10 days. 10,000 taste buds on tongue, few on soft palate, cheeks, pharynx, epiglottis
Taste bud responses
Sweet: Sugars, saccharin, alcohol, some amino acids, some lead salts. Sour: Hydrogen ions in solution. Salty: metal ions (inorganic salts). Bitter: Alkaloids (quinine, nicotine, aspirin). Umami: Glutamate, aspartate
Otitis Media
Middle ear inflammation, especially in children, who have shorter more horizontal pharynogotympanic tubes, most frequent cause of hearing loss, treated with antibiotics or myringotomy (tubes)
Exteroreceptors
Respond to stimuli outside body (touch, pressure, pain, temp)
Interoreceptors
Respond to stimuli arising in internal viscera (chemical changes, tissue stretch, temp changes)
Propprioreceptors
Respond to stretch
Mechanoreceptors
Touch, pressure, vibration and stretch
Thermoreceptors
Changes in temperature, Cold (10-40) Superficial dermis, Hot (32-48) Deeper Dermis, outside ranges, notifiy nociceptors activated for pain
Photoreceptors
Light energy (retina)
Chemoreceptors
Chemicals (smell, taste, changes in blood chemistry)
Nociceptors
pain-causing stimuli for extreme heat/cold, Ion channel opened by heat, low pH, chemicals, capsaicin (hot peppers), chemicals from damaged tissue
Nonencapsulated
Free Nerve Ending - In epithelia and connective tissues, respond to temp, and pain, pressure induced tissue movement, itch
Tacticle Corpuscles
Encapsulated dendritic Endings (meissner’s) Discriminitive touch, differentiate between quantities i.e. 2 popsicle sticks
Lamellar Corpuscles
Encapsulated dendritic Endings (Pacinian) Deep pressure and vibration
Bulbous Corpuscles
Encapsulated dendritic Endings (ruffini endings) Deep continuous pressure
Muscle Spindles
Encapsulated dendritic Endings Muscle stretch (deep)
Tendon Organs
Encapsulated dendritic Endings Stretch in tendons