The Sesbses Part 3

Question 1

What are the anatomical areas of the ear?

Answer 1

External, middle and inner

Question 2

Two parts of the external ear

Answer 2

Auricle (pinna) and external auditory canal

Question 3

Auricle (pinna)

Answer 3

Appendage on the side of the head surrounding the opening of the external auditory canal

Question 4

Tympanic membrane

Answer 4

Eardrum

Question 5

Ceremonious glands

Answer 5

Produce a waxy substance called ceruminous

Question 6

Patrician between external and middle ear

Answer 6

Tympanic membrane

Question 7

3 bones of the middle ear

Answer 7

Malleus, incus, and stapes

Question 8

Ossicles

Answer 8

General names of ear bones

Question 9

What separates the middle ear from the inner ear

Answer 9

Oval window

Question 10

Auditory or Eustachian tube

Answer 10

Connects the throat wth the inner ear

Question 11

Name for middle ear infection

Answer 11

Otitis media

Question 12

Mechanoreceptors

Answer 12

Involved with hearing and equilibrium in the ear

Question 13

Where is the inner ear

Answer 13

In the temporal bone in an area called the bony labyrinth

Question 14

Bony space in the bony labyrinth is filled with fluid called…?

Answer 14

Watery fluid called perilymph

Question 15

Bony labyrinth is called what?

Answer 15

Vestibule, semicircular canals, and cochlea

Question 16

Membranous labyrinth

Answer 16

Suspended sac in the bony labyrinth filled with a fluid called endolymph

Question 17

Semicircular canals

Answer 17

Contain specialized receptors called Crista ampularis in the middle ear

Question 18

Crista ampullaris

Answer 18

Generates a nerve impulse when the head is moved

Question 19

Organ of corti

Answer 19

Organ of hearing

Question 20

Chemoreceptors which generate the nervous impulses ultimately interpreted by the brain as taste

Answer 20

Gustatory

Question 21

Differing shaped bums that contain taste buds

Answer 21

Papillae

Question 22

Six known primary tastes

Answer 22

Sweet, sour, bitter, salty, metallic, Unami