Quiz vocab Flashcards
Semicircular canals (superior or anterior)
Recognizes up and down, yes
Semicircular canals (Inferior)
Recognises tilting of head
Ampulla
Hair cells that ditect motion
endolymph
Fluid that ditects mition, in semicircular canal
Utricle
Contains hair cells
Saccule
Knows up and down motion
Macula
Contains nerve cells
Semicircular canals (lateral or horizontal)
Picks up info for head shaking no
perilymph
fluid between membrane in cochlea
Otoliths
senses gravity crystals in ear
mechanoreceptors
or hair cells responds to movement
Round Window
soft membrane that allows fluid in inner era to vibrate
Oval window
soft membrane that allows fluid in inner era to vibrate
Scala Vestibuli
the upper bony passage of the cochlea
Scala Media
or Coclear Duct houses organ of corti