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LC 4-16 Flashcards

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Receptors found in skin, joints, muscles; sense of touch/movement.

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Somatic receptors

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Receptors found in walls of organs; organ status

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Visceral receptors

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Receptors for Gustation, olfaction, vision, hearing, equilibrium

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Special sense receptors

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Receptors that Detect stimuli from external environment; found in skin, special senses, some membranes

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Exteroceptors

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Receptors that Detect stimuli in internal organs; found in smooth muscle

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Introceptors

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Receptors that Detect body and limb movements; found in muscles and joints

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Proprioceptors

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Receptors that detect Chemicals dissolved in fluid; flavors in saliva, blood, oxygen

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Chemoreceptors

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Receptors for Changes in temperature

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Thermoreceptors

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Receptors for Changes in light, color, movement

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Photorecptors

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Receptors for Touch, pressure, vibration

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Mechanoreceptors

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Receptors for Stretch or expansion in vessels and organs

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Baroreceptors

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12
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Receptors for Pain/tissue damage

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Nocioceptors

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Cells that detect tastes; taste-producing molecules and ions in our food

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Gustatory cells

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Change in environment, detected by receptor

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stimulus

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Change in environment, consciously aware of it

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sensation

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Term for sense of taste

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gustation

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Term for sense of smell

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olfaction

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Type of sense that includes all senses other than special

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general

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Type of senses that include vision, hearing, smelling, tasting, equilibrium

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special

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Sense term that describes change in body’s internal environment, things that you can’t reach with a finger

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Interoreception

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Sense term that describes change in external environment, things you can reach with a finger

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Exteroreception

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Sense term that describes body position and equilibrium

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Proprioception

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Receptors that detect chemicals, eg nose, tongue, blood vessels

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Chemoreceptors

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Receptors that detect temperature, eg skin

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Thermoreceptors

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Receptors that detect light, eg only in eye

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Photoreceptors

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Receptors that detect touch, vibration, stretch, eg cutaneous, ear

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Mechanoreceptors

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Receptors that detect pressure, eg vessel and organ walls

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Baroreceptors

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Receptors that detect pain, eg skin, muscles

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Nocioceptors

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29
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Detect pain in skin

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Free nerve endings

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30
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Detect hair movement

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Root hair plexuses

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31
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Detects deep touch

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Lamellated corpuscles

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32
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Detects light touch

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Tactile corpuscles

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33
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Something you can smell

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oderant

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34
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Chemical in body that can detect oderant in body and will send signal to brain

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Oderant-binding protein

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35
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Smell is important for _______

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memory

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36
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Sense of taste

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gustation

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37
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Bumps on the tongue that may contain taste buds

38
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Papillae with no taste buds, have mechanoreceptors, for texture

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Filiform papillae

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Papillae that have taste buds, but not many

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Fungiform papillae

40
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Papillae that have taste buds, most taste buds

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Vallate papillae

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Papillae that are not well developed in humans

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Foliate papillae

42
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Describe how taste buds work

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(1) tastant dissolves, (2) goes into papillae, (3) chemoreceptors in papillae detect, (4) sent to facial (VII) and glossopharangeal (IX) nerves

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Term for chemical we can taste

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Five types of taste

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sweet, salt, sour, bitter, umami

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Taste produced by organic compounds, eg sugar

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Taste produced by metal ions, eg Na+ and K+

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Taste associated with acids

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Taste produced by alkaloids

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Taste related to amino acids

50
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Good portion of taste goes where in brain

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medulla oblongata

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Visual receptors that detect light

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photoreceptors

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Two main types of photoreceptors

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rods and cones

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Receptor that detects volume, amount of light

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Receptors that detect color, wavelength, frequency, primarily located in the fovea centralis

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Three types of cones

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red, blue, green

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Describe relationship of cones and rods in seeing light

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rods overlap in frequencies of light they detect, rods are between blue and green

57
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Protein in photopigments

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Light-absorbing molecule in photopigments

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Two types of photopigments

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rhodopsin, photopsin

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Opsin in rods

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Opsin in cone cells

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Focusing involves two steps

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refraction, accommodation

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Bending light, eg light passing through material

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refraction

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Term referring to body changing shape of lens to adjust for distance

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accommodation

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Accommodation for distant vision

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lens more long and thin, suspensory ligaments taut, ciliary muscles relaxed

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Accommodation for near vision

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lens more thick and spherical, suspensory ligaments relaxed, ciliary muscles contract

67
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Normal vision

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emmetropia

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Far-sighted

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hypertropia

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Near-sightedness

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Unequal focusing due to curvatures in one or more refractive surfaces

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astigmatism

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Age-related vision decrease

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presbyopia

72
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Lens needed to corrected hyperopia

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Lens needed to correct myopia

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concave lens

74
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Clearness of vision, measures on the 20/20 scale

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Visual acuity

75
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Describe visual acuity measurement

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higher second number, worse vision; lower second number, better vision, 20/20 is normal

76
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Pathway of light, neural pathway

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Photopigments in photoreceptors stimulated > depolarizes bipolar cell > AP in ganglion cell > optic nerves > optic tract > occipital lobe

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Optic tracts carry info to brain areas where

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superior colliculi

78
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Overlapping vision which creates depth perception

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stereoscopic vision

79
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Auditory path of sound

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Pinna > external auditory meatus > tympanic membrane > malleus > incus > stapes > oval window > vestibular duct > vestibular membrane > cochlear duct > tectorial membrane > hair cells of organ of corti

80
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Neural path of sound

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hair cells of spiral organ of corti > cochlear branch of vestibulocochlear nerve > vestibulocochlear nerve > cochlear nucleus > inferior colliculi > thalamus > temporal lobe

81
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Structure that vibrates out any excess pressure waves

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round window

82
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Wavelength of sound determines what in relationship to cochlea

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determines where in cochlea sound is detected

83
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Measurement for frequency of sound

84
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Measurement for amplitude, sound intensity

85
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Awareness and monitoring of head position, coming from vestibule

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equilibrium

86
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Structures that detect linear acceleration

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saccule, utricle

87
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Angular/rotational acceleration

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semicircular ducts

88
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Gel layer on top of hair cells in vestibule

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otolithic membrane

89
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Gel cap on top of hair cells in semicircular ducts

90
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Calcium carbonate crystal that add mass to gel in _______ membrane

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Linear and angular acceleration is detected by what

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hair cells in the vestibule

92
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Pathway of linear acceleration

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hair cells of vestibule > vestibular branch of vestibulocochlear nerve > vestibulocochlear nerve > vestibular nucleus > cerebellum and thalamus > cerebral cortex

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