Senses

Question 1

general senses

Answer 1

temperature, pain, touch, stretch and pressure

Question 2

special senses

Answer 2

gustation, olfaction, vision, equilibrium, and audition

Question 3

what are stimuli detected by

Answer 3

receptors

Question 4

General senses names

Answer 4

Mechanoreceptors that react to touch, pressure, and vibration
Thermoreceptors
Nociceptors
proprioceptors

Question 5

what detects muscle stretch?

Answer 5

muscle spindles

Question 6

what detect tendon stretch?

Answer 6

golgi tendon organs

Question 7

gustation

Answer 7

gustatory cell, chemoreceptor, cranial nerves VII and IX

Question 8

oflaction

Answer 8

olfactory neuron, chemoreceptor cranial nerve I

Question 9

vision

Answer 9

rods and cones, photoreceptor, cranial nerve II

Question 10

audition

Answer 10

cochlear hair cells, mechanoreceptor cranial nerve VIII

Question 11

equilibrium

Answer 11

hair cells, mechanoreceptor, vIII

Question 12

asnomia

Answer 12

loss of smell

Question 13

gustatory cells

Answer 13

Chemoreceptors
Respond to five basic tastes (salty, sour, sweet, bitter, umami)
Replaced every 7-10 days

Question 14

what make up your taste buds

Answer 14

gustatory cells, supporting cells, basal cells

Question 15

basal cells

Answer 15

Immature cells, replace other two cell types

Question 16

rods

Answer 16

function in dim light, don’t provide sharp vision or color vision, more numerous than cones

Question 17

cones

Answer 17

operate best in bright light, provide high acuity color vision

Question 18

fovea centralis

Answer 18

contains only cones, maximal visual acuity

Question 19

optic disc

Answer 19

contains no rods or cones, axons exit eye, blind spot

Question 20

macular degeneration

Answer 20

area around fovea degenerates

Question 21

glaucoma

Answer 21

high pressure in eye hurts optic nerve

Question 22

ceruminous gland

Answer 22

Produce cerumen

Earwax impedes microorganism growth

Question 23

what does the auditory tube connect?

Answer 23

connects the air-filled middle ear to the nasopharynx

Question 24

otitis media

Answer 24

infection of the middle ear

Question 25

vestibule

Answer 25

Utricle and saccule
Detects linear acceleration and head position
Helps sense equilibrium

Question 26

semicircular canals

Answer 26

Detect rotational movements

Help sense equilibrium

Question 27

cochlea

Answer 27

Detects sound waves

Question 28

conductive hearing loss

Answer 28

Sound isn’t conducted efficiently through the outer or middle ear

Question 29

sensorineural hearing loss

Answer 29

Damage to the inner ear or nerve pathways