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Sensory Physiology Flashcards

1
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Specific sensations, specific receptors

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Differential Sensitivity

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Specific sensations, specific pathways

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Labeled line principle

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Change in a way a receptor responds to sequential or prolonged stimulation

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Adaptation

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For continuous stimulus strength (detects steady stimulus)

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Slowly-adapting receptor (Tonic Receptors)

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Slowly-adapting receptor (Tonic Receptors)

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Muscle spindle, Golgi tendon, slow pain receptor, baroreceptor, chemoreceptors

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For detecting change in stimulus strength (detects onset and offset of stimulus)

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Rapidly-adapting Receptors (Phasic Receptors)

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Rapidly-adapting Receptors (Phasic Receptors)

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Pacing an Corpuscle

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Receptor potential in a Pacinian Corpuscle

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If depolarizing, brings the membrane potential closer to threshold

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Smaller receptive field with well-defined border

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Type 1

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Wider receptive field with poorly-defined borders

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Type 2

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2 point discrimination receptor?

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Type 1 receptor field

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12
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Stationary

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Merkel’s

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13
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Moving

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Me issuers

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14
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Touch & pressure in the skin

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Free Nerve Endings

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Movement of objects & low frequency vibration

In non-hairy skin esp. Fingertips and lips

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Meissner’s Corpuscle (FA1)

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16
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Gives steady-state signals for continuous touch
Localizing touch sensation and to determine texture
Combine to form Dome Receptors
Expanded tip tactile receptor

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Merkel’s Disc (SA1)

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17
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Movement of object on the skin

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Hair-end organ

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18
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Heavy & prolonged touch (pressure) and to signal degree of joint rotation
In deep skin, internal tissues & joint capsules, multi-branched, encapsulated, slowly-adapting

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Ruffini’s end organs (SA2)

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Detects high-frequency vibration

Onion-like structure in skin & deep fascia

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Pacinian Corpuscles (FA2)

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20
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Transducers stimulus to electrical signal

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Sensory Receptors

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21
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Cell Body: Dorsal Root or Cranial Nerve Ganglia

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First-Order Neurons

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Cell Body: Spinal Cord or Brainstem

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Second-Order Neurons

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Cell Body:Thalamus

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Third ORder Neurons

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Cell body: Sensory Cortex

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Fourth-Order Neurons

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Uses large myelinated fibers (group II), conduction velocity 30-110 m/s

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Dorsal Column-Medial Lemniscus Pathway

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26
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cRosses near the medulla

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Dorsal Column-Medial Lemniscus Pathway

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Uses smaller myelinated fibers (group III, IV) 8-40 m/s

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Antero-Lateral System (Spinothalamic Tract)

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28
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Relay station for sensation

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Thalamus

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29
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VPL nuclei

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Dorsal Column-Medial Lemniscus Pathway

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30
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VPM

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TrigeminoThalamic pathway

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31
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VPI nuclei

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Anterolateral system

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32
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Neurotransmitters for pain

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Glutamate & substance P

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33
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Fast pain

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Aka first/sharp/pricking/acute/electric pain

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34
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Type A delta fibers

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Fast pain

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35
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Neurotransmitter for Fast Pain

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Glutamate

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36
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Slow Pain

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Aka second/aching/throbbing/nauseous/chronic pain

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37
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Type C fiber

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Slow pain

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38
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Neurotransmitter for Slow Pain

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Substance P

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39
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Due to sharing of 2nd order neurons in the spinal cord of visceral pain fibers and skin pain fibers

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Referred pain

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40
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Warmth Receptors

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Free nerve endings, Type C fibers

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41
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Cold Receptors

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Type A delta fibers, some Type C

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42
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Pain Receptors

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<15 deg C or > 43 deg C

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43
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Distant objects

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Lens should be flat

Tensed suspensions ligament

Relaxed ciliary muscle

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44
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Nearby Objects

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Lens should be spherical

Relaxed suspensions ligament

Contracted ciliary muscles

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45
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Gelatinous with little flow

Behind the lens

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Vitreous Humor

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46
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Produced by Ciliary body
Exits into Canal of Schlemm
Free flowing
Main determinant of IOP

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Aqueous Humor

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47
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Flow of Aqueous Humor

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Ciliary body - posterior chamber - pupil - anterior chamber - trabecular mesh work - anterior chamber angle - canal of Schlemm - uveoscleral veins

48
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Area of central vision with slight thickening and pale color

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Macula Lutea

49
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Depression in macula Lutea with the highest visual resolution (highest cone density)

50
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Lacks rods & cones (anatomic blind spot)

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Optic Disk

51
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What do you call the protrusion of the optic disc into the vitreous space due to increased ICP?

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Papillae a

52
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Daylight

53
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Dark

54
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Converts 11-cigs retinal to all-trans retinal

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Pigment epithelium

55
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Absorb stray light and preventing light from scattering

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Pigment epithelium

56
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Absorb in Optic Disk; synapses with bipolar cells

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Rods & Cones

57
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Interneuron that connects Rods & Cones with Ganglion Cells

Contrast Detectors

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Bipolar cells

58
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Inter neurons that form local circuits with bipolar cells

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Amacrine cells, Horizontal cells

59
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Retinal glial cell

Maintains internal geometry of the retina ganglion cell

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Mueller Cells

60
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P cells

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Color, form, fine details

61
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M Cells

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Illumination, movement

62
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W Cells

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Unknown function

63
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Cutting of structure on the left side causes total blindness in the left eye?

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Optic nerve

64
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Causes bitemporal hemianopsia

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Optic chasm

65
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Cutting which structure on the left causes right homonymous hemianopsia?

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Optic tract

66
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Lesion on which structure on the left causes superior right homonymous quadrant anoxia

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Meyer’s/temporal loop

67
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Lesion on which on the left causes inferior right homonymous quadrant anoxia

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Parietal lobe

68
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Lesion on which structure on the left causes inferior right homonymous hemianopsia

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Geniculocalcarine tract

69
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Lesion on which structure on the left causes right homonymous hemianopsia with macular sparing

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Calcarine fissure

70
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Total loss of vision in the right eye

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Optic nerve

71
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Non-homonymous bitemporal hemianopsia

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Optic chiasm

72
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Contra lateral (left) homonymous hemianopsia

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Optic tract

73
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Superior left homonymous quadrant anoxia

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Temporal lobe (Meyer’s Loop)

74
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Inferior left homonymous quadrantanopia

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Parietal Lobe

75
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Contralateral (left) homonymous hemianopia

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Geniculocalcarine tract

76
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Superior left homonymous quadrantanopia (with macular sparing)

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Inferior bank of calcarine fissure

77
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Inferior left homonymous quadrantanopia (with macular sparing)

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Superior bank of calcarine fissure

78
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Contralateral (left) homonymous hemianopia (with macular sparing)

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Both banks of calcarine fissure

79
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Which type of cell in the visual cortex responds best to a moving bar of light?

80
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Which type of cell in the visual cortex responds best to a stationary bar of light?

81
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Which type of cell in the visual cortex responds best to lines, curves and angles?

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Hyper complex

82
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All of the following are found in the visual cortex except?
A. Simple cells
B. Complex
C. Hypercomplex
D. Bipolar cells
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Bipolar cells

83
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Which of the following. Is a step in photoreceptors in the rods?

A

Metarhodopsin II activates transduction

84
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All of the following processes in photoreceptors are correct except?
A. Light converts 11-cis rhodopsin to all trans rhodopsin
B. Metarhodopsin II activates transducin
C. Transducin activates phosphodiesterase decreasing cGMP
D. CGMP decreases closing Na channels causing the membrane to depolarize

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D. Hyperpolarizes

85
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Light rays converge in front of the retina (long eyeball)

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Myopia (biconcave lens)

86
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Light rays converge behind of the retina (short eyeball)

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Hyperopia (convex lens)

87
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Irregular curvature of the cornea

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Astigmatism (cylindrical lens)

88
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Age-related loss of accommodation (near point moves farther away)

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Presbyopia (convex lens)

89
Q

First sign of Vitamin A deficiency

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Nyctalopia

90
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Normal vision

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Emmetropia

91
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Biconcave lens

92
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Convex lens

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Hyperopia

Presbyopia

93
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Cylindrical lens

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Astigmatism

94
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Sound pressure

95
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Sound frequency

96
Q

What is the age-related progressive sensorineural hearing loss?

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Presbycusis

97
Q

Occupational hearing loss occurs after >10 year exposure to which sound pressure

98
Q

What sound pressure causes pain & possible permanent damage?

99
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Conversation

100
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Workplace 8 hours

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> 85-90 dB

101
Q

Occupational hearing loss

Sx after 10 years

102
Q

OHL

Irreversible sensory neural hearing loss

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100-110 dB

103
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For sound collection, localization

104
Q

Impedance matching

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Auditory ossicles

105
Q

Endolymph

A

Scalia media, high in potassium

106
Q

Peri lymph

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Scalia vestibule, scalar tympani, high sodium

107
Q

What are the two muscles found in the middle ear?

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Tensor tympani (malleus)
StaOedipus (stapes)
108
Q

What is the connection between outer & middle ear?

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Eustachian tube

109
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What is the function of the middle ear?

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Impedance matching

110
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What is the function of the attenuation reflex?

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Protects cochlea from loud/damaging sounds

Masks background noise

111
Q

Otoliths organs

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Utricle & saccule

112
Q

For linear acceleration & sometime angular acceleration

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Utricle & Saccule

113
Q

Anterior, posterior, lateral canals

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Semicircular Canals

114
Q

For angular acceleration

A

Semicircular canals

115
Q

Located on anterior and lateral part of the tongue

A

Fungi form & Foliate papillae

116
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Located at the base of the tongue

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Circumvallate papillae

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