Final: Week 1 VOCAB

Question 1

What term refers to the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement?

Answer 1

Proprioception

Question 2

What term describes sensations such as touch, temperature, pain, and pressure?

Answer 2

Somatic sensations

Question 3

What term refers to sensations that arise from internal organs?

Answer 3

Visceral sensations

Question 4

What are the small bumps on the tongue that contain taste buds?

Answer 4

Papillae

Question 5

What are the nerve fibers that carry signals from the taste buds to the brain?

Answer 5

Gustatory afferent axons

Question 6

What type of cells in the taste buds are responsible for the regeneration of taste receptor cells?

Answer 6

Basal cells

Question 7

What are the cells in the taste buds that are responsible for detecting taste molecules?

Answer 7

Taste receptor cells

Question 8

What is the small opening on the surface of the tongue through which taste molecules enter the taste bud?

Answer 8

Taste pore

Question 9

What is a drug that can selectively block sodium channels in taste receptor cells, affecting the perception of salty taste?

Answer 9

Amiloride

Question 10

What is the term for the loss of the sense of taste?

Answer 10

Ageusia

Question 11

What is the specialized tissue in the nasal cavity that contains olfactory receptor cells?

Answer 11

Olfactory epithelium

Question 12

What type of cell in the olfactory epithelium is responsible for detecting odors?

Answer 12

Olfactory receptor cell

Question 13

What is the term for the loss of the sense of smell?

Answer 13

Anosmia

Question 14

What are the specialized cells in the retina that respond to light?

Answer 14

Photoreceptors

Question 15

What type of photoreceptor cells are responsible for vision in low light conditions?

Answer 15

Rods

Question 16

What type of photoreceptor cells are responsible for color vision and visual acuity?

Answer 16

Cones

Question 17

What type of cells in the retina receive visual information from bipolar cells and send it to the brain?

Answer 17

Ganglion cells

Question 18

What type of cells in the retina integrate and regulate signals from photoreceptor cells?

Answer 18

Horizontal cells

Question 19

What type of cells in the retina modulate the activity of bipolar cells and ganglion cells?

Answer 19

Amacrine cells

Question 20

What is the light-sensitive pigment in rod cells of the retina that is responsible for vision in low light conditions?

Answer 20

Rhodopsin

Question 21

What is the part of the brain where the optic nerves partially cross over?

Answer 21

Optic chiasm

Question 22

What is the pathway that carries visual information from the retina to the brain?

Answer 22

Retinofugal pathway