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Olfaction

Sense of smell

How many olfaction receptors do we have

10-100million

Where are olfaction receptors located and how big of area

Top of nasal cavity in area of less than 1 square inch

What are olfactory receptors

Specialized neurons that binds to odor molecule

What do odor receptors look like

Hair like extensions that reach our and float in mucus

Olfactory receptors are the only cells in the body that..

Go to the outside

Basal cells divide what to make what

continually to make olfactory receptors

How often are olfactory cells replaced

Every month

What do the olfactory glands do

Secrete mucus

What happens in the mucus

Smell dissolves and is absorbed into receptors

Olfactory nerves are what

40 bundles of axons that terminate into olfactory bulbs

Odor molecule requirement:

Has to dissolve in mucus. Of it can't, we can't smell it

What is one thinfbwe can't smell

Natural gas

We have the ability to differentiate how many smells? Dogs?

Us. 10,000


Dogs: 100,000

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

Uncinate fits

Phantom smells


Smell of rotten meat


Can last several weeks to months, smells will permanately go away after that

Gustation

Taste

5 tastes

Sweet


Sour


Bitter


Salty


Umami

Umami

Savory

How many taste buds on tongue, soft palate, pharynx and larynx

10,000

How many taste buds are left in adulthood

3000

When do tastebuds decrease drastically

At 50

Gustatory receptors cells

project hair like extensions into groves of tongue

Gustatory supporting cells

Surround 50 receptor cells, producing more gustatory cells

Gustatory basal cells

Produce more supporting cells

Papillae

Tastebuds

Circumvallate

Very large tastebuds in the back

Fungiform

Tastebuds all over tongue

Filiform

Hair like, all over tongue, no taste buds associated with them

What do filiform do

Move food around

Palpebrae

Eyelids

Job of palpebrae

Keep eyes moist by blinking

Palpebral fissure

Opening between the two eyelids

Conjunctiva

Covers surface of eye, except for cornea, very vascular

Eyelash and eye brows

Keep junk and dibris out of eyes


Keep sweat out of eyes

Lacrimal glands

Tear glands found superior and lateral to eye

Tears come from where

From the top lacrimal glands

Lacrimal ducts

Where tears drain in from the glands

Lacrimal puncta

Two holes connected to lacrimal canal

Lacrimal canal

Drains into lacrimal sac

Lacrimal sac

Drains into nose

The lacrimal duct is a modified..

Sebaceous gland that secretes sebum (gunk that collects in the eye)

Anatomy of eye

Next

Fibrous tunic is what and contains what

Very tough outer layer of eye


Contains cornea and sclera

Cornea

Clear dome that sits over the iris


Connected to sclera

Sclera

White part of eye

Vascular tunic is what and contains what

Very dark and contains melanin that absorbs stray light

Vascular tunic contains what parts of eye

Choroid


Ciliary body


Ora serrata


Iris


Pupil

Choroid

Blood vessels that feed the retina

Ciliary body

Sits next to lens and iris

Ciliary process

Secreted aqueous humor suspensory ligaments

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

Ciliary muscles alter shape of

Lens

Ora serrata

Jagged anterior margin of retina

Iris

Circular and radial muscles

Lens is located directly behind

Iris

Glaucoma

Too much aqueous humor being made and not drained


Tested by shooting air onto cornea

Cateracs

Cloudy lens

Astigmatism

Abnormal shape of cornea

Retina

Neural tunic that is connected to optic nerve

Optic disc

Where axons from retina leave and go to occipital lobe

Macula lutea

Has high concentration of rods and cones

Central fovea

Contains only cones

Rods are for

Low light

Cones are for and require

Color and require alot of light

Interior of eyeball

Anterior and posterior cavity

Anterior cavity is filled with

Aqueous humor and is the lens forward

Posterior cavity

The lens back


Vitreous body - Push retina to the back of the eye and sit next to choroid layer

Visual pathway

Light activated rods / cones which talk to optic nerve

Optic chiasm

Axons of optic nerves cross and go to visual cortex


Only medial ones cross

Hearing

Next

External anatomy of ear

Ear drum out

Auricle

Directs sound to center of ear canal

Helix

Upper rounded portion of ear

Lobule

Bottom part of ear that pierces

External auditory canal

Whole going through the external auditory meatus and ending at the tympanic membrane

Tympanic membrane

Eardrum

Ceruminous glands

Modified sebaceous glands that make wax

Purpose of wax in ears

To help trap debris and junk from getting into the ear

Cerumen

Wax

Middle ear

Eardrum to oval window

Middle ear is filled with what

Air

Auditory ossicles

Smallest bones in body they are fully grown when you are born

Malleus

Connected to tympanic membrane

Incus

Connected to malleus

Stapes

Connected to incus, which stimulates cochlea

Stapedius muscle

Connected to stapes, protective for loud sounds by contracting, pulling on stapes to lesson the blow to cochlea

Auditory tube

Equalizes pressure

Where does an ear infection most likely occur

Middle ear

Inner ear

Oval window to inside

Vestibular apparatus contains

Utricle and saccule


Semicircular canals

Utricle and saccule

Controls equilibrium


Head position and acceleration / deceleration, body position

Semicircular canals

Equilibrium / spinning

Cochlea

Oval window and round window for hearing

Auditory pathway

Nerves in cochlea are activated and synapse with vestibularcochear nerve which sends an Impulse to auditory area in temporal lobe

Upper respiratory system clears by

Cilia that beat unidirectionally to throat

Nose includes

Cartilage


External nares


Nasal conchae

Nasal cartilage

Septal - middle


Lateral - side


Nasal alar

Flare of nose

External nares

Opening into nose

Nasal conchae

Three shelf like structures that swirl around to moisten the air and warm it up before it gets to the lungs

Three nasal conchae

Superior metal and inferior

Vestibule

Above external Nares, has hairs to trap to Breeze from getting into the nasal cavity

Pharynx contains

Nasopharynx


Oropharynx


Laryngopharynx

Nasopharynx

Behind nose to roof of mouth

Oropharynx

Roof of mouth to bottom of mouth what you can see when mouth is open

Laryngopharynx

Beyond the oropharynx leading to the throat

Lower respiratory system

From Adam's Apple down

The larynx contains

Thyroid cartilage


Cricoid cartilage


Epiglottis


Vocal cords

Thyroid cartilage

Top part of cartilage

Cricoid cartilage

Lower part of cartilage

Epiglottis

Above glottis

Vocal cords

On either side of glottis

Glottis is

The opening to trachea

How long is the trachea

12 inches long

Mucus escalator

Ciliated and takes junk and debris from lungs up the throat

Trachea is comprised of

C shaped hyaline cartilage rings to prevent collapse

Where does the esophagus set

Directly behind trachea

Bronchi tubes

Left and right primary bronchus


Secondary bronchi


Tertiary bronchi

Primary bronchus

Where trachea branches

Describe right bronchi

Longer and more vertical

Described left bronchi

Shorter and horizontal

Carina

Internal Ridge where bronchi split

Secondary bronchi

Branches off the primary and each branch enters a lobe

How many branches on the left and right secondary bronchi is

Right has three


Left has two

Tertiary bronchi

Each goes to another part of the lobe

Branching after the tertiary

Bronchioles Branch to terminal bronchioles which in turn Branch into the alveoli

Alveoli

Grape like sac that that is tightly surrounded by capillaries

Pleural membrane

Surrounds each lung

Visceral layer

Fuse directly to lungs

Parietal layer

Attach to ribs

Base of lungs

Lay on diaphragm

Apex of lungs

Narrow Superior portion

Hilus

Area where bronchi and large vessels enter and exit medial side of lung

Left lung

Cardiac Notch and has two lobes

Cardiac notch

Where heart sits

Two lobes of left lung

Superior and inferior divided by oblique fissure

Three lobes of right lung


Superior inferior and middle


Oblique and horizontal fissures



Alveoli cells

Type one, type 2, alveolar macrophages

Type 1 alveolar cells

Simple squamous epithelial cells and site of gas exchange

Type 2 alveolar cells

Cuboidal epithelial cells


Secrete alveolar fluid


Secrete surfactant

Surfactant

Oily substance salons won't stick together, made in the 7th to 8th month of gestation

Alveolar macrophages

Live inside air sacs and eat junk and debris that gets deep down in lung

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

What happens during expiration a ventilation

Relaxation of the diaphragm and external intercostals


decrease of thorax volume


reversal of pressure and gradient

What controls breathing rhythm

Medulla oblongata

How long does inspiration and expiration last

Inspiration is 2 seconds expiration is 3 seconds

Pneumotaxic area

Within the pons and shuts off signal to inhibit inspiration impulses

Apneustic area

Within the pons and send signal to stimulate inspiratory impulses