Topic 12: Special Senses

Question 1

large group of different types of touch receptors

Answer 1

general senses

Question 2

senses localized to the head regions includes taste, smell, sight hearing and balance

Answer 2

special senses

Question 3

what type of receptors do the taste sense have?

Answer 3

chemorecptors

Question 4

superior surface of the tongue structures

Answer 4

• stratified squamous epithelium
• filiform
• fungiform
• foliate
• vallate
• suclus terminals
• lingual tonsil

Question 5

most numerous papillae on the tongue, small and conical pointed shape, line up in parallel rows which enable the grasping and manipulation of food; do not contain taste bus

Answer 5

filiform

Question 6

papillae; lateral taste bus, mushroom shaped and scattered all other tongue surface; taste buds on apical surface

Answer 6

fungiform