Somatic And Special Senses Bio 100

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Sensory Receptors do what?

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They detect changes in the enviroment and stimulate neurons to send nerve impulses to the brain

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What are the 5 main types of receptors?

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Chemoreceptor, pain receptors, theromoreceptors, mechanoreceptors and photoreceptors

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Chemoreceptors do what?

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they are sensitive to change in a chemical condition

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Pain receptors do what

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They detect tissue damage

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thermoreceptors

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change in temperature

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mechanoreceptors

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change in pressure or movement

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photoreceptors

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change in light vision

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What is a sensation?

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It is a feeling that occurs when the brain interprets sensory impulses.

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When sensory impulses are sent at decreasing rates until the receptors fail to send impulses?

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This is know as adaption if there is a change in strength of the stimulus then the impulse will be resent

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Olfactory organs means what?

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Smell organs

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What type of the receptors are the olfactory receptors?

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Chemoreceptors

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Where are chemoreceptors located

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in the upper nasal cavity

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What are the organs of taste?

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The taste buds

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Taste buds are located within bumps called?

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papillae

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Where are papillae scattered?

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Through out the mouth and the pharynx.

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The ear is made up of what?

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The external, middle and the inner

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What does the ear do?

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provides us with hearing and equilibruium

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The outer ear consist of the what?

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auricle/ or pinna

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What does the auricle or pinna do?

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it collects sound

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Once the sound is collected it travels down the what?

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External auditory meatus.

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Once the sound travels down the External auditory meatus where does it go?

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toward the middle ear

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The middle ear begins with the eardrum called the?

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tympanic membrane

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The eardrum is an air filled space or a?

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tympanic cavity

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The eardrums typanic cavity houses the tiny bones called the ?

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auditory ossicles

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What are the name of the three bones that the middle ear contains?

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malleus, incus and the stapes

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What opening does the last of the three bones push against?

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oval window

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The inner ear is made up of what?

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a membranous labyrinth inside and a osseous(inner)labyrinth

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What is the fluid that is between the two labyrinths?

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perilymph

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what is the fluid in side the inner labyrinth called?

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endolymph

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Path of vibration: What funnels the sound as air waves into the external auditory?

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The oricle

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Path of Vibration: What channels the air waves into the eardrum.

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the tympanic membrane

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Path of Vibration: The tympanic membrane vibrates converting the impulses into?

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Mechanical waves.

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Path of vibration:What moves the three auditory ossicles which are in order?

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The mechanical waves

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What are the three auditory ossicles?

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Malleus incus stapes

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Path of vibration: Moving the three auditory ossicles will amplify the sound. What is the last one?

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The stapes

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Path of vibration: What last auditory ossicle pushes on the oval window?

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the stapes

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The sense of equilibrium consist of two parts what are they?

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Static and dynamic

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What are the accesory organs of Vision?

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The eyelids

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What is the thin smooth muscle that adjusts the amount of light entering the pupil?

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The iris

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The hole in the center of the iris is the?

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pupil

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What are the two kinds of modified neurons of the visual receptors?

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The rods and the cones.

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What modified neuron is elongated and responsible for black and white vision?

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The rods

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What modified neuron is blunt shaped and responsible for color vision?

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the cones

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Somatic senses are associated with what?

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receptors in the skin muscles joints and the viscera

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Somatic senses include the senses of

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touch and pressure temperature and pain

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The sense fo touch and pressure are derived from 3 kinds of receptors?

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sense mechanical forces and deformor displaced tissue

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Whjat sensory nerve fibers in the epithelial tissues are associated wiht touch and prressure?

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Free endings

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What are Meissner's corpuscles?

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oval masses of connective tissue that surround 2 or more nerve fibers they are abundant on hairless parts

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What are pacinian corpuscles?

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connective tissue fibers and cells -in the deeper tissues and muscle tendons and joints ligaments- responds to heavy pressure

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Some free nerve endings are

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heat receptors, cold receptors and pain receptors both heat and cold adapt quickly pain adapts slowly

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Deficiency of oxygen can trigger what receptor?

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pain

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what pain may fell like it is coming from another part of the body?

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visceral

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Nerve fibers that conduct impulses away from pain receptors are?

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Acute pain fibers and chronic pain fibers

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What determines the intensity of the the pain?

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The cerebral cortex

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What makes one aware of pain?

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the thalamus

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Window of the eye that helps focus entering light rays is the?

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cornea

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The white portion of the eye?

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sclera

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The iris seperates the anterior from the

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posterior

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What depresson in the center of the retina produce the sharpest vision?

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The fovea