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Olfaction |
Sense of smell |
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How many olfaction receptors do we have |
10-100million |
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Where are olfaction receptors located and how big of area |
Top of nasal cavity in area of less than 1 square inch |
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What are olfactory receptors |
Specialized neurons that binds to odor molecule |
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What do odor receptors look like |
Hair like extensions that reach our and float in mucus |
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Olfactory receptors are the only cells in the body that.. |
Go to the outside |
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Basal cells divide what to make what |
continually to make olfactory receptors |
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How often are olfactory cells replaced |
Every month |
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What do the olfactory glands do |
Secrete mucus |
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What happens in the mucus |
Smell dissolves and is absorbed into receptors |
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Olfactory nerves are what |
40 bundles of axons that terminate into olfactory bulbs |
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Odor molecule requirement: |
Has to dissolve in mucus. Of it can't, we can't smell it |
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What is one thinfbwe can't smell |
Natural gas |
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We have the ability to differentiate how many smells? Dogs? |
Us. 10,000 Dogs: 100,000 |
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Anosmia And what is it causes by |
Inability to smell Caused by defect somewhere in the smell process Caused by blow to head that would damage bulbs, zinc levels or a bad cold |
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Uncinate fits |
Phantom smells Smell of rotten meat Can last several weeks to months, smells will permanately go away after that |
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Gustation |
Taste |
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5 tastes |
Sweet Sour Bitter Salty Umami |
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Umami |
Savory |
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How many taste buds on tongue, soft palate, pharynx and larynx |
10,000 |
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How many taste buds are left in adulthood |
3000 |
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When do tastebuds decrease drastically |
At 50 |
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Gustatory receptors cells |
project hair like extensions into groves of tongue |
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Gustatory supporting cells |
Surround 50 receptor cells, producing more gustatory cells |
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Gustatory basal cells |
Produce more supporting cells |
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Papillae |
Tastebuds |
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Circumvallate |
Very large tastebuds in the back |
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Fungiform |
Tastebuds all over tongue |
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Filiform |
Hair like, all over tongue, no taste buds associated with them |
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What do filiform do |
Move food around |
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Palpebrae |
Eyelids |
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Job of palpebrae |
Keep eyes moist by blinking |
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Palpebral fissure |
Opening between the two eyelids |
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Conjunctiva |
Covers surface of eye, except for cornea, very vascular |
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Eyelash and eye brows |
Keep junk and dibris out of eyes Keep sweat out of eyes |
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Lacrimal glands |
Tear glands found superior and lateral to eye |
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Tears come from where |
From the top lacrimal glands |
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Lacrimal ducts |
Where tears drain in from the glands |
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Lacrimal puncta |
Two holes connected to lacrimal canal |
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Lacrimal canal |
Drains into lacrimal sac |
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Lacrimal sac |
Drains into nose |
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The lacrimal duct is a modified.. |
Sebaceous gland that secretes sebum (gunk that collects in the eye) |
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Anatomy of eye |
Next |
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Fibrous tunic is what and contains what |
Very tough outer layer of eye Contains cornea and sclera |
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Cornea |
Clear dome that sits over the iris Connected to sclera |
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Sclera |
White part of eye |
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Vascular tunic is what and contains what |
Very dark and contains melanin that absorbs stray light |
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Vascular tunic contains what parts of eye |
Choroid Ciliary body Ora serrata Iris Pupil |
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Choroid |
Blood vessels that feed the retina |
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Ciliary body |
Sits next to lens and iris |
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Ciliary process |
Secreted aqueous humor suspensory ligaments |
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How does ciliary process work |
Aqueous humor comes out of pupil and fills chamber behind cornea and drains into canal of schlemm which constantly makes aqueous humor |
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Ciliary muscles alter shape of |
Lens |
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Ora serrata |
Jagged anterior margin of retina |
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Iris |
Circular and radial muscles |
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Lens is located directly behind |
Iris |
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Glaucoma |
Too much aqueous humor being made and not drained Tested by shooting air onto cornea |
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Cateracs |
Cloudy lens |
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Astigmatism |
Abnormal shape of cornea |
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Retina |
Neural tunic that is connected to optic nerve |
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Optic disc |
Where axons from retina leave and go to occipital lobe |
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Macula lutea |
Has high concentration of rods and cones |
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Central fovea |
Contains only cones |
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Rods are for |
Low light |
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Cones are for and require |
Color and require alot of light |
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Interior of eyeball |
Anterior and posterior cavity |
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Anterior cavity is filled with |
Aqueous humor and is the lens forward |
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Posterior cavity |
The lens back Vitreous body - Push retina to the back of the eye and sit next to choroid layer |
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Visual pathway |
Light activated rods / cones which talk to optic nerve |
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Optic chiasm |
Axons of optic nerves cross and go to visual cortex Only medial ones cross |
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Hearing |
Next |
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External anatomy of ear |
Ear drum out |
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Auricle |
Directs sound to center of ear canal |
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Helix |
Upper rounded portion of ear |
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Lobule |
Bottom part of ear that pierces |
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External auditory canal |
Whole going through the external auditory meatus and ending at the tympanic membrane |
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Tympanic membrane |
Eardrum |
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Ceruminous glands |
Modified sebaceous glands that make wax |
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Purpose of wax in ears |
To help trap debris and junk from getting into the ear |
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Cerumen |
Wax |
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Middle ear |
Eardrum to oval window |
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Middle ear is filled with what |
Air |
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Auditory ossicles |
Smallest bones in body they are fully grown when you are born |
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Malleus |
Connected to tympanic membrane |
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Incus |
Connected to malleus |
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Stapes |
Connected to incus, which stimulates cochlea |
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Stapedius muscle |
Connected to stapes, protective for loud sounds by contracting, pulling on stapes to lesson the blow to cochlea |
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Auditory tube |
Equalizes pressure |
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Where does an ear infection most likely occur |
Middle ear |
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Inner ear |
Oval window to inside |
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Vestibular apparatus contains |
Utricle and saccule Semicircular canals |
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Utricle and saccule |
Controls equilibrium Head position and acceleration / deceleration, body position |
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Semicircular canals |
Equilibrium / spinning |
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Cochlea |
Oval window and round window for hearing |
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Auditory pathway |
Nerves in cochlea are activated and synapse with vestibularcochear nerve which sends an Impulse to auditory area in temporal lobe |
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Upper respiratory system clears by |
Cilia that beat unidirectionally to throat |
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Nose includes |
Cartilage External nares Nasal conchae |
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Nasal cartilage |
Septal - middle Lateral - side |
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Nasal alar |
Flare of nose |
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External nares |
Opening into nose |
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Nasal conchae |
Three shelf like structures that swirl around to moisten the air and warm it up before it gets to the lungs |
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Three nasal conchae |
Superior metal and inferior |
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Vestibule |
Above external Nares, has hairs to trap to Breeze from getting into the nasal cavity |
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Pharynx contains |
Nasopharynx Oropharynx Laryngopharynx |
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Nasopharynx |
Behind nose to roof of mouth |
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Oropharynx |
Roof of mouth to bottom of mouth what you can see when mouth is open |
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Laryngopharynx |
Beyond the oropharynx leading to the throat |
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Lower respiratory system |
From Adam's Apple down |
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The larynx contains |
Thyroid cartilage Cricoid cartilage Epiglottis Vocal cords |
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Thyroid cartilage |
Top part of cartilage |
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Cricoid cartilage |
Lower part of cartilage |
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Epiglottis |
Above glottis |
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Vocal cords |
On either side of glottis |
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Glottis is |
The opening to trachea |
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How long is the trachea |
12 inches long |
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Mucus escalator |
Ciliated and takes junk and debris from lungs up the throat |
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Trachea is comprised of |
C shaped hyaline cartilage rings to prevent collapse |
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Where does the esophagus set |
Directly behind trachea |
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Bronchi tubes |
Left and right primary bronchus Secondary bronchi Tertiary bronchi |
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Primary bronchus |
Where trachea branches |
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Describe right bronchi |
Longer and more vertical |
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Described left bronchi |
Shorter and horizontal |
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Carina |
Internal Ridge where bronchi split |
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Secondary bronchi |
Branches off the primary and each branch enters a lobe |
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How many branches on the left and right secondary bronchi is |
Right has three Left has two |
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Tertiary bronchi |
Each goes to another part of the lobe |
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Branching after the tertiary |
Bronchioles Branch to terminal bronchioles which in turn Branch into the alveoli |
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Alveoli |
Grape like sac that that is tightly surrounded by capillaries |
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Pleural membrane |
Surrounds each lung |
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Visceral layer |
Fuse directly to lungs |
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Parietal layer |
Attach to ribs |
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Base of lungs |
Lay on diaphragm |
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Apex of lungs |
Narrow Superior portion |
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Hilus |
Area where bronchi and large vessels enter and exit medial side of lung |
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Left lung |
Cardiac Notch and has two lobes |
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Cardiac notch |
Where heart sits |
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Two lobes of left lung |
Superior and inferior divided by oblique fissure |
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Three lobes of right lung |
Superior inferior and middle Oblique and horizontal fissures |
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Alveoli cells |
Type one, type 2, alveolar macrophages |
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Type 1 alveolar cells |
Simple squamous epithelial cells and site of gas exchange |
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Type 2 alveolar cells |
Cuboidal epithelial cells Secrete alveolar fluid Secrete surfactant |
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Surfactant |
Oily substance salons won't stick together, made in the 7th to 8th month of gestation |
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Alveolar macrophages |
Live inside air sacs and eat junk and debris that gets deep down in lung |
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What happens during inspiration of lungs |
Contraction of diaphragm and external intercostals Thorax volume increases pulling walls of lungs out Causes a pressure difference between long and external air |
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What happens during expiration a ventilation |
Relaxation of the diaphragm and external intercostals decrease of thorax volume reversal of pressure and gradient |
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What controls breathing rhythm |
Medulla oblongata |
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How long does inspiration and expiration last |
Inspiration is 2 seconds expiration is 3 seconds |
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Pneumotaxic area |
Within the pons and shuts off signal to inhibit inspiration impulses |
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Apneustic area |
Within the pons and send signal to stimulate inspiratory impulses |