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What are the 2 groups sense organs are divided into?

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general sense and special sense

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What do general senses include?

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touch, pressure, pain, temperature (heat and cold), proprioception, visceral sensations

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What do special senses include?

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eye (vision), ear (hearing), equilibrium (balance and head position), smell (odors), taste, electromagnetic/light, mechanical, chemical

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What is a sensory receptor?

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a specialized cell or cell processes

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What are the simplest sensory receptors?

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free nerve endings (branching tips of dendrites)

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What is receptor function?

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receptor specificity
development of receptor potentials
translates a stimulus into an action potential that can be quickly conducted to the CNS (transduction)
the intensity of the stimulus is indicated by the frequency and pattern of action potentials

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What is the classification of general sense receptors?

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nociceptors, thermoreceptors, chemoreceptors

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What do nociceptors recieve?

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pain and local anesthetics

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What do thermoreceptors recieve?

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temperature

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What are the three types of mechanoreceptors?

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tactile receptors (touch, pressure, and vibration), baroreceptors (pressure in blood vessels), proprioceptors (positions of joints and muscle)

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What do chemoreceptors recieve?

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chemical concentration

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What is smell provided by?

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paired olfactory organs

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Where is olfaction located?

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in the nasal cavity on either side of the nasal septum

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What are the two parts of olfaction called?

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vomeronasal organ and olfactory mucose/bulb

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What are the steps of olfactory reception?

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odorants –> bind to odorant binding proteins –> opens sodium channels –> graded potentials –> action potentials

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What are the steps of the olfactory pathways?

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receptor potential –> olfactory nerves (cranial nerve I) in the olfactory bulb –> olfactory tract –> thalamus –> olfactory centers (temporal lobe) of the brain

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What is the olfactory organ made up of?

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olfactory epithelium and lamina propria

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What are olfactory receptor cells and where are they located?

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they are olfactory cilia that contain receptor proteins sensitive to chemicals dissolved in overlying mucus in the olfactory epithelium

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What kind of cells are in olfactory epithelium

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supporting cells

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What are the surfaces of the olfactory epithelium coated with>

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secretions of the olfactory glands

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What is the lamina propria

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an underlying layer of areolar tissue that contains olfactory glands

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What is in gustation?

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taste (gustatory) receptors are clustered in taste buds

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What are taste buds associated with?

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taste buds are associated with epithelial projections (lingual papillae) on dorsal surface of tongue

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What does each taste bud contain?

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gustatory cells, which extend taste hairs through a narrow taste pore

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What are the steps to the gustatory pathway?
receptor potential in the gustatory cells --> facial nerve and glossopharyngeal nerve --> medulla oblongata --> thalamus --> gustatory area of the cerebral cortex in the parietal lobe of the brain
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What are the three layers of the eye?
fibrous tunic, vascular tunic (uvea), neural tunic (retina)
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What is included in the fibrous tunic?
outer layer, sclera, cornea, limbus
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What is included in the vascular tunic (uvea)?
middle layer, iris, ciliary body, choroid
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What is the neural tunic?
inner layer
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What does the pigment part of the neural tunic include?
a thin outer layer that absorbs light that passes through the neural part
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What does the neural part of the neural tunic include?
a thick inner layer that contains light receptors and associated neurons
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What is included in the neural part of the retina
photoreceptor neurons, visual receptors (rods, cones, bipolar cells, ganglionic neurons)
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What do the rods in the eye do?
the do not discriminate colors and are every light sensitive
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What do the cones of the eye do?
they provide color vision and include macula lutea and fovea *highest concentration of cones; provides sharpest vision
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What is the optic disc?
a blind spot (a circular region)
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What is the function of the lens of the eye?
to focus a visual image on the photoreceptors by changing its shapes
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When is light refracted?
light is refracted (bent) when it passes through the cornea and lens, precisely forming a miniature image
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What is accommodation?
focusing images on the retina by changing the shape of the les, the lens becomes rounder to focus on the image of a nearby object
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What are the steps of the visual pathway?
axons from all ganglion cells converge on the optic disc --> optic nerves --> optic chiasm --> optic tracts --> optic radiations --> visual cortex of occipital lobe in another side
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What typically shows little convergence?
cones
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What is convergence?
information processing and integration
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What is the fluid inside the inner ear?
endolymph
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What protects and surrounds the membranous labyrinth?
The bony labyrinth
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What is the inner ear subdivided into?
vestibule three semicircular canals cochlea
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What does the vestibule receptors provide?
receptors provide sensations of gravity and linear acceleration
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What do semicircular canals receptors provide?
receptors provide sensations of rotation
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What do cochlear receptors provide?
receptors provide the sense of hearing
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What is the basic receptor of the inner ear?
hair cell
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How does a hair cell release chemical transmitters?
distortion of the stereocilia and kinocilium makes the cell release chemical transmitters
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What do stereocilia and kinocilium provide?
provide information about the direction and strength of the mechanical stimuli
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What is the pathway for equilibrium sensations?
hair cells of the vestibule and semicircular ducts --> sensory neurons --> vestibular branch of the vestibulocochlear nerve --> vestibular nuclei at the boundary between the pons and the medulla oblongata --> cerebellum and parietal lobe
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What is the auditory pathway?
the sensory neuron afferent fibers forms the cochlear branch of the vestibulocochlear nerve --> cochlear nucleus in the medulla oblongata --> temporal lobe of the opposite side of the brain

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