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27 Cards in this Set
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What are nociceptors?
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Pain receptor
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What are photoreceptors?
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Light receptor
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What do proprioceptive sensations allow us to do?
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Allows us to know where our head and limbs are and how they are moving without looking
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What are the basic taste sensations?
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Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty
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What is the sclera?
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The white of the eye
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What is the cornea?
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Clear part of the eye
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What is the iris?
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The colorful part of the eye
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What is the pupil?
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The opening of the iris
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What do the lens do?
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Focuses light on the back of the eye
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What does the ciliary body do?
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Holds the lens in place
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What is the aqueous humor? Where is it located?
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Circulates from the cornea to the lens through the canal of Schlemm; in the inner eye
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What is the vitreous humor? Where is it located?
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Keeps the eyes in shape and keeps interocular pressure stable; in the inner eye, the space behind the eyeball
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What detects black and white?
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Rods
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What detects color?
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Cones
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How does light travel?
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Through the cornea to the aqueous humor to the pupil to the lens; in the lens the light is bent so that it will hit the retina of the eye; to get to the fovea centralis light must pass through viterous humor; light then hits the retina where rods and cones interpret the image and send it to the optic nerve to the brain
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Where is the blind spot?
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Where the optic nerve takes the image to your brain
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Whee is the spot of greatest visual acuity?
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in the fovea centralis
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What is the scientific name for the eardrum?
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tympanic membrane
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What is the scientific name for an ear infection?
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Otitis Media
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What does the cochlea do?
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Allows for hearing
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What are the 4 lobes of the brain?
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Occipital, Temporal, Parietal, and Frontal
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What is accommodation?
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Change in the curve of lens?
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What is the name for farsightedness?
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Myopia
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What is the name for nearsightedness?
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Hyperopia
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What does the auditory tube do?
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Equalizes air pressure
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What neurotransmitter causes drug addiction?
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Dopamine
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What neurotransmitter causes drug addiction?
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Dopamine
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