Term 3 Flashcards
What does the free nerve ending pick up ?
Pain , heat and cold itch
What does the encapsulated nerve ending pick up ?
Pressure and touch
What is referred pain ?
- Pain that is picked up in an organ but felt somewhere else
- viceral pain that is felt as cutaneous pain
What does cutaneous mean ?
Skin or surface
What is the conjunctiva ?
The pink part of the eye
Lies inside of the eyelid
What is the sclera ?
The white part of the eye
What is the retina ?
The interior coating of the eye , where visual action takes place
Where is the exterior coating of the eye ?
Sclera
A tough fibrous membrane in the front
What is the middle layer of the eye called ?
Choroid layer (brownish color ) Between the sclera and retina
What is the role of the lens , sometimes called the crystal lens ?
For focusing / accommodation
What are the lens controlled by ?
The ciliary muscle
It stretches it out to see close or long distance
What is the pupil ?
The opening or the black hole of the eye
What’s the color portion of the eye that around the pupil ?
Iris
What does the iris do ?
- It makes the pupil bigger or smaller
- it’s called pupillary dialation
What accommodate/pushed the lens and iris?
Ciliary muscle
What is the cornea ?
- Part if the sclera
- Allows light waves to first enter the eye /the window of the eye
Where is the aqueous humor found ?
Water in the front
Anterior chamber
Where is the vitreous humor found ?
- Jelly like liquid
- Found in the posterior chamber
- it gives the eye a substance
Where are cones found an what is it for ?
In the retina
For color
Where are the rods& cones found ?
On the retina
What are the Rods for ?
Shading
Remember rod the vampire ;darkness
What is the role of lacrimal glands ?
Produce tears
Where are the lacrimal glands found ?
The outer cantus
What is Lysome ?
Body’s natural antiseptic
Found in tears and saliva
What’s the purpose of tears ?
It’s flows from the outter cantus to the inner cantus to lacrimal ducts to the nasopharynx and down the back
-it lubricate and protect the eye from infection
What is convergence ?
Looking at and object up close and not seeing double
What is binocular vision ?
It’s allows dept perception and makes large vision field
What is accommodation ?
Increase refractive ability of eye necessary for near vision
What is pupillary constriction ?
Blocks light rays That pass through lens and increase sharpness of image
What is the first thing the light hit In The eye ? Pathway of light rays!!!
Cornea (from eye) Anterior and posterior chamber Pupil Lens Vitreous chamber and vitreous humor Retina
Optic nerve fiber (to brain )
Cerebral cortex
What does the brain do with images when picked up ?
Interpret them
What’s in the outter ear ?
Pinna or auricle
What’s in the middle ear ?
Malleus
Incus
Stapes
The 3 occipital bones
What’s in the inner ear ?
Organ of corti
Auditory nerve
Chochlea
Semicircular canal
What is the a actual organ of hearing ?
Organ of corti
What does the organ of corti responsible for ?
Hearing and balance (equilibrium )
What nerve pair lets us see ?
Optic nerve
How many cranial nerve do we have ?
12 pair
What does vagus mean ?
Wondering nerve
What does the vagus nerve do ?
Slow heart rate
Goes down the Thoriac area to the abdominal area , controls peristalsis of the stomach
What gives us sence of taste ?
The olfactory nerve
What is the disease causes by the trigeminal nerve ?
Trigeminal neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia is _____ and the _____ nerve ?
Sensory
Fifth cranial nerve
The facial nerve is ______ and the ____ cranial nerve ?
Motor
7th cranial nerve
What is the occipital area ?
Visual area