Special Senses 9% Flashcards
special senses are
gustation, olfaction, vision, auditory
projections from tongue where taste buds are embedded
taste papillae
cylindrical, largest, least in number, bitter, 8-12 V shaped form, anterior to sulcus terminalis
circum vallate papillae
mushroom shaped, most numerous taste receptors, tip tongue
fungiform
posterior roof/mouth lateral margins
foliate
thread like, sensitive to touch (no taste)
filiform
(sweet, sour, salty) CN VII to chorda tympani to pterygopalatine to solitary tract and nucleus
anterior 2/3 of tongue
bitter CN IX
posterior 1/3 tongue
CN X bitter
epiglottis and larynx
embryonic thyroid diverticulum (dorsal depression of tongue)
foramen caecum
limbic area, contains granular, mitral and tufted cells and a glomerulus
olfactory bulb
olfaction nerver supply: CN? to cribriform plate of ethmoid to ___ to ___/medial olfactory stria to subcallosal gyrus
I, lateral olfactory stria, UNCUS
upper surface of superior concha, main chemoreceptor
pseudostratified columnar epithelium
retina develops from ? sclera derived from ?
ectoderm, dura
retinal cells include:
amacrine, bipolar, ganglion, horizontal and pigments (rods and cones)