Anatomy - Sense Organs

Front 1

What is the term used to describe sensory impulses being sent at a decreasing rate until receptors fail to sense impulses until there is a change in strength of the stimulus.

Back 1

Sensory Adaptation

Front 2

What are receptors sensitive to changes in chemical concentrations?

Back 2

Chemoreceptors

Front 3

What are pain recepters, they detect tissue damage?

Back 3

Nociceptors

Front 4

What are receptors that respond to temperature differences?

Back 4

Thermoreceptors

Front 5

What are receptors that respond to changes in pressure or movement?

Back 5

Mechanoreceptors

Front 6

What are receptors in the eyes that respond to light energy, electromagnetic stimuli?

Back 6

Photoreceptors

Front 7

How many senses are there? And what are the two categories?

Back 7

10 Senses!
5 General Senses
5 Special Senses

Front 8

What are the five senses that are distributed generally throughout the body. They transmit sensory info via peripheral and automomic nerve fibers to CNS.

Back 8

General Senses

Front 9

What are the five sense that are located in the head. They have complex receptors and are often involved in clinical disease.

Back 9

Special Senses

Front 10

What are the five general senses?

Back 10

Visceral Sensations
Touch
Temperature
Pain
Proprioception

Front 11

What are the five special senses?

Back 11

Taste
Smell
Hearing
Equilibrium
Vision

Front 12

What sense involves hunger, thirst, hollow-organ fullness?

Back 12

Visceral Sensations

Front 13

What sense involves touch and pressure?

Back 13

Touch

Front 14

What sense involves hot and cold?

Back 14

Temperature

Front 15

What sense is related to intense stimuli of any type?

Back 15

Pain

Front 16

What sense is related to body position and movement?

Back 16

Proprioception

Front 17

What sense involves tastes?

Back 17

Taste

Front 18

What sense involves odors?

Back 18

Smell

Front 19

What sense involves sounds?

Back 19

Hearing

Front 20

What sense involves balance and head positon?

Back 20

Equilibrium

Front 21

What sense involves light?

Back 21

Vision

Front 22

What are 4 processes that contribute to nociception? (Pain)

Back 22

Transduction
Transmission
Modulation
Perception

Front 23

Foliate papillae on the tongue are sensitive to what type of tastes?

Back 23

Sour

Front 24

Circumvallate papillae on the tongue are sensitive to what type of taste?

Back 24

Sour/Bitter

Front 25

What are the five basic tastes?

Back 25

Salt Taste
Sour Taste
Sweet Taste
Bitter Taste
Umami Taste

Front 26

Acid and and H+ protons cause what type of taste?

Back 26

Sour

Front 27

What is the taste of certain amino acids called?

Back 27

Umami taste

Front 28

What is the proper term for the sense of smell?

Back 28

Olfactory sense.

Front 29

Smell and _____ are intimately linked?

Back 29

memory!

Front 30

What is the roof of each nostril, a region called?

Back 30

Nasal mucosa

Front 31

The nasal mucosa contains the?

Back 31

Olfactory epithelium covered in mucus.

Front 32

What is the condition in which the sense of smell is reduced or lost entirely?

Back 32

Anosmia

Front 33

The auditory sense converts vibrations of air molecules into nerve impulses to be interpreted by the brain. This sense is considered to be?

Back 33

A mechanical sense

Front 34

What are the three sections of the ear?

Back 34

External Ear
Middle Ear
Inner Ear

Front 35

What section of the ear is designed to funnel sound wave vibrations and direct them toward the eardrum?

Back 35

External part!

Front 36

Which membrane vibrates at the same frequency as the sound waves, called sympathic vibration?

Back 36

Tympanic membrane

Front 37

What middle ear is coposed of what three parts?

Back 37

Tympanic cavity
Ossicles
Eustachian Tube

Front 38

The middle ear contains three bones or ossicles which transmit and amplify sound vibrations. What are they?

Back 38

Malleus (hammer)
Incus (Anvil)
Stapes (Stirrup)

Front 39

What is part of the middle ear and equalizes pressure on two sides of the tympanic membrane?

Back 39

The eustachian tube. (auditory tube)

Front 40

Within the cochlea is a bony labyrinth filled with fluid called?

Back 40

Perilymph

Front 41

Equilibrium in the ear related to utricle and saccule. Gelatinous material holding otoliths that contact hair cells. What type of equilibrium is this?

Back 41

Static Equilibrium

Front 42

What type of equilibrium is related to semicircular canals that detect motion of the head.

Back 42

Dynamic Equilibrium

Front 43

What is the first and most powerful lense of the optical system of the eye?

Back 43

Cornea

Front 44

What are the whites of the eye called?

Back 44

Sclera

Front 45

What is the colored part of the eye?

Back 45

Iris

Front 46

Which type of photoreceptor cellse are sensitive to light and see shades of gray?

Back 46

Rods

Front 47

Which type of photoreceptor cellse are sensitive to color and see details?

Back 47

Cones

Front 48

Where to dall the nerve fibers on the inside surface of the retina converge?

Back 48

Optic Disc!

Also the Blind Spot of the eye!

Front 49

What two chambers in the eye are filled with aqueous humor?

Back 49

Anterior and Posterior chambers!

Front 50

What chamber in the eye is filled with vitreous humor?

Back 50

Vitreous chamber!

Front 51

Which glands are the primary source of tears?

Back 51

Lacrimal glands

Front 52

What duct is related to crying, which causes your nose to run?

Back 52

Nasolacrimal Duct

Front 53

What two small openings drain tears from the eye?

Back 53

Lacrimal puncta

Front 54

What are the 4 straight eye muscles?

Back 54

Dorsal
Ventral
Medial
Lateral

Front 55

What are the 2 oblique eye muscles?

Back 55

Dorsal
Ventral