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Special Senses Flashcards

To help recall the lessons about the Special Senses

1
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Highly localized receptors that provide information.

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Special senses

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2
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5 special senses.

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Smell, Taste, Sight, Hearing, Balance

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7 primary odors.

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Musky, Floral, Pepperminty, Ethereal, Pungent, Putrid, Camphoraceous

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4
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Response to airborne molecules, called odorants.

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Olfaction

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5
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Axons from interneurons form the olfactory tracts which CONNECT TO THE _____

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Olfactory cortex

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Sensroy structures that detect taste stimuli are called?

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Taste buds

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7
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What areas can taste buds be found?

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Tongue, Palate, Lips, Throat

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8
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4 types of papillae.

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Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate, Filiform

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9
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What are the 5 basic tyupes of taste that exists?

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Salty, Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Umami

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10
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Out of the 5 primary taste buds, one tend to be the most sensitive.

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Bitter

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11
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Taste extend from the medulla oblongata to the _____ and to the cerebral cortex.

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Thalamus

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12
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Prevent perspiration from entering the eyes.

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Eyebrows

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13
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Help lubricate the eyes by spreading tears over their surface.

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Eyelids

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14
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Project from the free margin of each eyelid.

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Eyelashes

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15
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Covers the inner eyelid and the anterior part of the eye.

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Conjunctiva

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16
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Consist of the lacrimal gland, lacrimal canaliculi, and nasolacrimal duct.

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Lacrimal apparatus

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17
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Contain mostly water, with some salts, mucus, and lysosomes.

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Tears

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18
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3 layers of the eyeball.

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Fibrous, Vascular, Nervous

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19
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Part/s of the vascular layer.

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Choroid, Ciliary body, Iris

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20
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Part/s of the nervous layer.

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Retina

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21
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White connective tissue that maintains the shape of the eyeball.

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Sclera

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22
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Transparent and refracts light that enters the eye

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Cornea

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23
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Inner layer of the eyeball.

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Retina

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25
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Area of greatest sensitivity to light.

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Macula

26
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The BLIND SPOT of the eye.

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Optic disc

27
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Looking at object 20 feet or more from the eye.

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Distant

28
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Looking at objects less than 20 feet from the eye.

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Near

29
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Responsible for non-color vision and vision in low illumination (AKA night vision).

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Rods

30
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A purple pigment consisting of opsin (protein) covalently bound to a yellow photosensitive pigment called retinal.

A

Rhodopsin

31
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Responsible for color vision and visual acuity.

A

Cones

32
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Papillae of the tongue that has no taste buds.

A

Filiform

33
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Blindness in that visual field area (both the nasal and temporal parts).

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Optic nerve blindness

34
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Blindness in the temporal parts of the eye (left and right monocular).

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Optic chiasm blindness

35
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Blindness in the temporal and nasal parts of the eye, depending on which side it is blind at.

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Visual cortex blindness

36
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3 parts of the ear.

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External, Middle, Inner

37
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The fleshy part of the external ear.

A

Auricle

38
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Serves as the passageway that leads to the tympanic membrane.

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External acoustic meatus

39
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A thin semitransparent membrane separate external ear to middle ear.

A

Tympanic membrane (eardrum)

40
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Evaluates the movement of the head.

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Dynamic balance

41
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Evaluates the position of the head relative to the gravity and detects linear acceleration and deceleration.

A

Static balance

42
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Frequency of the soundwaves.

A

Pitch

43
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Amplitude of soundwaves.

A

Volume

44
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Resonant quality (overtones) of sound.

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Timbre

45
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Spinal shaped canal within the temporal bone.

A

Cochlea

46
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Type of hearing that depends on vibration.

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Conductive hearing

47
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Filled with potassium-rich fluid called endolymph.

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Membranous labyrinth

48
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Fluid-filled space between membranous labyrinth and bony labyrinth.

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Perilymph

49
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Contains vestibular and cochlear nerve that transverses internal auditory canal.

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Vestibulocochlear nerve

50
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The true organ of hearing is ______

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Cochlea

51
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Stimulated by Low-frequency sound.

A

Stapedius muscles

52
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Stimulated by Extremely loud noises.

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Tensor tympani muscles

53
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Equalizes pressure in the middle ear cavity with the external air pressure.

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Auditory tube/Eustachian tube/Pharyngotympanic

54
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Contains the endolymph and the spiral organs.

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Cochlear duct

55
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Sensor in your inner ear that detects when you move your head

A

Crista ampullaris

56
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Looking up to the right.

A

Right superior rectus
Left inferior oblique

57
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Looking down to the left.

A

Right superior oblique
Left inferior rectus

58
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Looking straight upward.

A

Right superior rectus
Left superior rectus

59
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Looking up to the left.

A

Right inferior oblique
Left superior rectus

60
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Looking down to the right.

A

Right inferior rectus
Left superior oblique

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