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What are our general senses? |
Temperature, Pain, Touch, Pressure, Vibration, Body position (proprioception) |
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What are our special senses? |
Olfaction (smell) Gustation (taste) Vision Equilibrium (balance) Hearing |
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What is adaptation? |
A reduction in sensitivity due to a constant stimulus |
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The "white" of the eye |
Sclera |
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What attaches the lens to the ciliary body? |
Suspensory Ligaments |
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Fluid in the anterior segment that provides nutrients to the lens and cornea |
Aqueous humor |
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Area of the retina that lacks photoreceptors |
optic disk |
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What contains the muscle that controls the shape of the lens? |
ciliary body |
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Nutritive "vascular" layer of the eye |
Choroid |
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What layer containing rods and cones? |
Retina |
