Unit 5: Senses

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Special Senses

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Your sight, sound, smell, taste, and hearing

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Somatic Senses

Back 2

What facilitates the body's perception of its own senses

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Sensation

Back 3

A feeling a person gets when something happens in their body or when something comes into contact with their body

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Sensory Adaptation

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The ways in which our senses adapt to specific stimuli

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Thermoreceptor

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A sensory receptor that observes and reacts to changes in temperature

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Pain Receptor

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A group of sensory receptors that respond to types of pain throughout the body

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Olfaction

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One's sense of smell

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Gustation

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One's sense of taste

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Chemoreceptors

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Special nerve cells that can sense changes in blood's chemical composition

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Photoreceptors

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The eye's retina's cells that convert light into signals for the brain

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Taste buds

Back 11

Sensory organs on your tongue that are responsible for how your brain sees taste

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Papillae

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Small, raised protrusions that have taste buds

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Saliva

Back 13

A liquid that's brought into the mouth by glands for easing chewing and swallowing

(The band is cool too)

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Sweet

Back 14

A taste on your tongue normally from eating foods with ample sugar

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Salty

Back 15

A taste on your tongue normally resulting from foods with a good amount of salt

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Sour

Back 16

A taste on your tongue normally resulting from foods with organic acids

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Bitter

Back 17

A taste on your tongue normally from foods with peptides, phenois, etc.

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Umami

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A taste on your tongue normally referred to as the universal taste. Normally savory and goes with many other of your basic tastes.

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Olfactory Bulb

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A mass of tissue that contains se sensory nerve cells related to smell

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Olfactory Nerves

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Nerves that allow you to smell, it is what conveys that sense

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Olfactory Nerves

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Nerves that allow you to smell, it is what conveys that sense

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Optic Nerve

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Nerve in the back of the eye that works on transmitting impulses to the brain from the retina

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Conjunctiva

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A mucous membrane that covers the front of the eyeball; lines the eyelids' insides

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Lacrimal Gland

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Section of eye above what's visible, secretes tears

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Lacrimal Duct

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Portion of the eye that transfers tears from the eyes' surface to the nasal cavity

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Retina

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A structure at the back of the eye that trigger nerve impulses, allowing visual images to be created

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Sclera

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White outer layer of the eyeball, continuous with cornea

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Cornea

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Transparent part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil and many other structures in the eye. Allows light to enter the inside

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Cornea

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Transparent part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil and many other structures in the eye. Allows light to enter the inside

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Choroid

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A section of the eye filled with blood vessels that manage to bring oxygen and nutrients to the eye

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Lens

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Curved structure in the eye that bends light and focuses it for the retina

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Iris

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Colored tissue at eye's center that has the pupil in the center of it all

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Aqueous Humor

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Clear fluid that fills the space at the front of the eyeball between the cornea and lens

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Vitreous Humor

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Transparent, gelatinous filling the eyeball behind the lens

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Cone

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One of the two types of photoreceptor cells which help maintain color vision and eye-color sensitivity

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Rod

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A cell that is light-sensitive in the eye, helps maintain monochrome vision in bad lighting

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External Ear (auricle or pinna)

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Aka the auricle or the pinna, the external ear is the physical portion of the ear that we see. It's made up of skin and cartilage

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External Auditory Meatus

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The canal from the outside of the head to the eardrum membrane

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Middle Ear

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Portion of the ear behind the eardrum, connect to the back of your nose and throat

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Tympanic Membrane

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Most commonly known as the eardrum, it is where sound waves go to vibrate and transfer to the middle ear

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Ossicles

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Bones in the middle ear that transfer sounds to the cochlea

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Malleus

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Portion of the middle ear that transmits vibrations to the anvil/incus

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Incus

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A portion of the middle ear that receives vibrations from the malleus, transports them to the stapes medially

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Stapes

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Portion of the middle ear that revieves vibrations from the incus and gives the vibrations to the outer ear

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Inner Ear

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Portion of your ear that has your cochlea, semi-cirular canals, and the vestibule

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Eustachian Tube

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A tube that equalizes pressure for the eardrums sides

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Cochlea

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Portion of inner ear that produces nerve impulses from sound vibrations

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Semicircular canals

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3 small little tubes filled with fluid in your inner ear that help maintain your balance

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Oval Window

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Connective tissue membrane that activates receptors for hearing

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Round window

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An opening in your cochlea that allows vibrations to pass through easier

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Vestibule

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A portion of your ear between the cochlea and semicircular canals that helps you maintain equilibrium