senses

Question 1

mechanical stimuli

Answer 1

tough, hearing, balance

Question 2

chemical stimuli

Answer 2

taste, smell

Question 3

thermal stimuli

Answer 3

hot, cold

Question 4

electromagnetic stimuli

Answer 4

sight

Question 5

allodynia

Answer 5

painful response to a normally nonpainful stimulus

Question 6

heatstroke

Answer 6

considerable elevation in body temperature

Question 7

hyperesthesia

Answer 7

an increased response to a painful stimulus

Question 8

perception

Answer 8

conscious interpretation of sensory information

Question 9

sedative

Answer 9

drug that depresses an animal and slows its own body functions, no painkilling action

Question 10

sensation

Answer 10

awareness of stimuli from the environment

Question 11

tranquilizer

Answer 11

drug that makes that animal less anxious, no painkilling action

Question 12

noci

Answer 12

injury, pain, harm

Question 13

tact

Answer 13

touch

Question 14

-esthesia

Answer 14

feeling

Question 15

-ile

Answer 15

capable of, pertaining to

Question 16

-ity

Answer 16

capable of, pertaining to

Question 17

propri/o

Answer 17

self, ones own

Question 18

esthesi/o

Answer 18

felling, experience, sensation

Question 19

visceral sensation

Answer 19

sensations from the animal’s interior, hunger, thirst

Question 20

touch and pressure sensation

Answer 20

tactile sense, located in the dermis, tell the animals body when it is in contact with another surface,

Question 21

temperature sensation

Answer 21

monitoring the animal’s body temperature, central temperature receptors are located within the hypothalamus,

Question 22

nociception

Answer 22

the ability to take a painful stimulus and translate it into a nerve impulse that will travel to the brain for interpretation and reaction

Question 23

body position and movement sensation

Answer 23

proprioception, ability of an animal to know where its body is and what muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints are doing,

Question 24

eu

Answer 24

good, well, normal

Question 25

aqua

Answer 25

water, watery solution

Question 26

gust/o

Answer 26

taste

Question 27

rhin/o

Answer 27

nose

Question 28

olfact/o, odor/o, osm/o

Answer 28

smell

Question 29

ot/o

Answer 29

ear

Question 30

tympan/o, myring/o

Answer 30

eardrum

Question 31

acous/o

Answer 31

hearing, listening

Question 32

audi/o

Answer 32

sound

Question 33

ocul/o, ophthalm/o, opt/o

Answer 33

eye

Question 34

blephar/o, palpebr/o

Answer 34

eyelid

Question 35

lacrim/o, dacry/o

Answer 35

tears

Question 36

kerat/o, corne/o

Answer 36

cornea

Question 37

irid/o

Answer 37

iris

Question 38

cor/o

Answer 38

pupil of the eye

Question 39

retin/o

Answer 39

retina

Question 40

oss/o

Answer 40

bone

Question 41

aque/o

Answer 41

water, watery solution

Question 42

amplify

Answer 42

increase in size, effect, volume, extent, or amount

Question 43

amplitude

Answer 43

loudness of a sound

Question 44

cantus

Answer 44

corner of each eye formed by the junction of the upper and lower eyelids

Question 45

cochlea

Answer 45

snail shell, spiral organ in the inner ear that turns sound waves into sensory impulses

Question 46

conjunctiva

Answer 46

mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and the inner surface of the eyelids

Question 47

eustachian tube

Answer 47

auditory canal, canal that runs from the middle ear to the pharynx

Question 48

humor

Answer 48

any one of the cardinal fluids in the body, blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile

Question 49

matrix

Answer 49

surrounding substance in which something else in contained

Question 50

miosis

Answer 50

prolonged constriction of the pupil of the eye

Question 51

mydriasis

Answer 51

prolonged dilation of the pupil of the eye

Question 52

modulate

Answer 52

change, regulate, adjust

Question 53

neutral transmission

Answer 53

passage of a nerve impulse across a synapse

Question 54

nocturnal

Answer 54

active at night

Question 55

papilla

Answer 55

small round or cone shaped projection or peg on the top of the tongue that may contain taste buds

Question 56

pheromone

Answer 56

liquid substance released in very small quantities by an animal that causes a specific response if it is detected by another animal of the same species

Question 57

pinna

Answer 57

ear flap

Question 58

sensory receptor

Answer 58

nerve ending that responds to a stimulus, sends impulses to the brain

Question 59

sensory transduction

Answer 59

conversion of a signal from one form to another

Question 60

vitreous

Answer 60

resembling glass

Question 61

taste sweet

Answer 61

high energy

Question 62

taste sour

Answer 62

acidic food

Question 63

taste salty

Answer 63

electrolyte-modulation foods

Question 64

taste bitter

Answer 64

toxic or bad

Question 65

umami

Answer 65

protein rich