Vocab

Question 0

Proprioceptors

Answer 0

• Receptors found near junction between tendons and muscles
• provide info of where parts of body are
• sense of muscle tension

Question 1

Chemoreceptor

Answer 1

Detects chemicals responsible for our senses of taste and smell

Question 2

Mechanoreptors

Answer 2

Sense organs of hearing equilibrium and balance

Question 3

Golgi tendon organ

Answer 3

• near junction of tendons and muscles

* proprioception (sense of muscle tension)

Question 4

Meissner corpuscle

Answer 4

• Skin fingertips and lips

- persistent to touch and pressure

Question 5

Pacini corpuscles

Answer 5

• Subcutaneous,submucous, and around external genitals

- deep pressure and high frequency vibration

Question 6

Photoreceptor

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Stimulated by light

- rods & cones

Question 7

General sense organs

Answer 7

• Distributed throughout the body

- skin muscles tendons joints and other internal organs of the body

Question 8

Special sense organs

Answer 8

• Smell taste vision hearing & equilibrium

- nose tongue eyes ears

Question 9

Layers of the eye

Answer 9

Sclera , choroid, retina

Question 10

Sclera

Answer 10

Consists tough fibrous tissue

Question 11

Cornea

Answer 11

Transparent outer layer of sclera

- window of the eye

Question 12

Iris

Answer 12

Colored muscular part of the eye

Question 13

Conjunctiva

Answer 13

Mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and covers the sclera in

Question 14

Lacrimal gland

Answer 14

Glands that produce tears

Question 15

Choroid

Answer 15

-middle layer of eye that contains a dark pigment to prevent the scattering of incoming light rays

Question 16

Pupil

Answer 16

The opening in the center of the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the eye

Question 17

Lens

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The refracting mechanism of the eye that is located directly behindhind the pupil

Question 18

Presbyopia

Answer 18

“Old sightedness”

Question 19

Cataract

Answer 19

Condition in which the lens loses its transparency and becomes milky in appearance

Question 20

Retina

Answer 20

Innermost layer of Eyeball

-contains rods and cones

Question 21

Rods

Answer 21

Receptors for night vision

Question 22

Cones

Answer 22

Receptors for daytime vision

Question 23

Fovea centralis

Answer 23

small depression in the Macula lutea where cones are most densely packed

Question 24

Aqueous humor

Answer 24

Watery fluid in front of the lens

Question 25

Vitreous humor

Answer 25

Jellylike fluid behind The lens

Question 26

Glaucoma

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Pressure within the eye

Question 27

Refraction

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Bent

Question 28

Photo receptor cells

Answer 28

Rods and cones

Question 29

Optic disc

Answer 29

blind spot

Question 30

Auricle

Answer 30

Part of the external ear | Side of head

Question 31

External auditory canal

Answer 31

Part of external ear

Question 32

Tympanic membrane

Answer 32

Partition between the external and middle ear

Question 33

Ceruminous glands

Answer 33

Produce wax

Question 34

Cerumen

Answer 34

Wax

Question 35

Three small bones aka ossicles

Answer 35

Malleus Incus Stapes

Question 36

Malleus

Answer 36

Hammer Handle Attaches to tympanic membrane Head attaches to incus

Question 37

Incus

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Anvil | Attaches to stapes

Question 38

Stapes

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Stirrup | Presses against a membrane that covers a small opening, the oval window

Question 39

Auditory or eustatchian tube

Answer 39

Connects the throat w middle ear

Question 40

Bony labyrinth

Answer 40

Spaces in the temporal bone assembled as a complex maze

Question 41

Perilymph

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Water fluid in bony labyrinth

Question 42

Parts of the bony labyrinth

Answer 42

Vestibule, semi circular canal, cochlea. | Vestibule is Adjacent to oval window between the semicircular canals and the cochlea

Question 43

Membranous labyrinth

Answer 43

"Tube within a tube"

Question 44

Endolymph

Answer 44

Thicker fluid in membranous labyrinth

Question 45

Crista ampullaris

Answer 45

Generates a nerve impulse when you move your head

Question 46

Vestibular nerve

Answer 46

Joins w the cochlear nerve to form the acoustic nerve

Question 47

Organ of corti

Answer 47

Snail shape | Surrounded by endolymph, filling the membranous labyrinth

Question 48

Gustatory cells

Answer 48

Generate the nervous impulses ultimately interpreted by the brain as taste

Question 49

Papillae

Answer 49

Different shapes bumps across tongue