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Umani

Savory

Salty receptors

Metal ions

Bitter receptors

Alkaloids

Sour receptors

Acids

Sweet receptors

Saccharine and some amino acids

Gustatory hairs

Long microvilli

The tongue is covered with projections called __?

Papillae

Where are taste buds found?

On the sides of papillae

Filiform papillae

Sharp with no taste buds

Fungiform papillae

Rounded with taste buds

Circumvallate papillae

Large papillae with taste buds

Where are taste buds located ?

Most are on the tongue, soft palate, and in cheeks

What houses the receptor organs ?

Taste buds

Interpretation of smells is made in the what ?

Cortex

What are transmitted to the olfactory nerve ?

Impulses

Olfaction

The sense of smell

Continued stimulation can lead to ?

Adaptation

Where does the action potential starts ?

In the cochlear nerve

Hair cells are bent by the ___

Membrane

Organ of corti

Located within the cochlear

Receptors

Hair cells on the basilar membrane

What stimulates the hair cells?

Cupula

Viewing close objects can cause what ?

Convergence

Convergence

Eyes moving medially

What causes pupils to constrict through action of radial, circular, ciliary muscles

Bright light

Optic tracts

Contains fibers from the lateral side of the eye on the same side and the medial side of the opposite eye

Optic chlasma

Fibers from the medial side of each eye cross over to the opposite side of the brain

Real images are ?

Reversed from left to right, upside down, smaller than the object

Real image

Image formed on the retina

Accommodation

The lens must change shape to focus on closer objects

The eye is set for ?

Distance vision (over 20ft away)

Ophthalmoscope

Instrument used to illuminate the interior of the eyeball

Ophthalmoscope

Can detect diabetes, arteriosclerosis, degeneration of the optic nerve and retina

Vitreous humor

Gel-like substance posterior to the lens, prevents eye from collapsing, helps maintain intraocular pressure

Aqueous humor

Watery fluid found between lens and cornea

Anterior

Aqueous

Posterior

Vitreous

Lens

Biconvex crystal like structure

Cataracts

Results when the lens becomes hard and opague with age

Neurons of the vision and retina

Rods and cones

Optic disc

Blind spot

Optic disc

Where the optic nerve leaves the eyeball, cannot see images focused on the optic disc

Retina 2 layers

Outer pigmented layer, inner neural layer

Photoreceptors

Rods and cones