vision/
phototransduction
phototransduction
The point on the retina where the optic nerve and blood vessels leave, aka the optic disc
What is blind spot?
The semicircular canal that detects tilting the head towards shoulders.
What is posterior semicircular canal?
The compression and rarefaction of air.
What is sound?
The chemoreceptors that detect airborne chemical compounds.
What are Olfactory receptors?
The chemical molecules released into the bloodstream by glands that affect the activity of cells and tissues.
What is hormones?
The procedure that is used by clinicians to evaluate peripheral vision
What is a Field Test?
The frequency of action potentials in the hair cells of semicircular canal when sheared toward smallest stereocilia.
What is decreased?
The portion of the inner ear that vibrates at specific frequencies to shear the hair cells of the cochlea.
What is the basilar membrane?
The portion of taste receptor cells that increases surface area and has membrane receptors that transduce chemicals into receptor potentials
What is microvilli?
The type of hormone that travels by carrier in the blood.
What is lipid soluble?
The molecule that changes shape when activated by light
What is retinal?
The most common cause of this disorder is the dislodgement of otoliths from the utricle into one of the semicircular canals.
What is BPPV?
The first step of sound transmission, after sound travels through the ear canal.
What is the tympanic membrane vibrates?
The receptor type that is activated when an odorant binds to it.
What is GPCR?
The excess of this hormone, commonly caused by noncancerous pituitary tumor (adenoma), causes gigantism in children.
What is growth hormone (GH)?
These are the only cells in the eye that send action potentials.
What are Ganglion Cells?
The fluid within the cochlear duct.
What is endolymph?
The connection between stereocilia.
What is tip links?
What is voltage gated calcium channel?
The release of this hormone by the anterior pituitary is inhibited by somatostatin.
What is growth hormone (GH)?
The conditions that exist when there is nearly zero [neurotransmitters] in the synaptic cleft of a photoreceptor cell and bipolar cells.
The organ(s) in the inner ear vestibular system that would be activated if you were on a swing.
What is utricle and saccule?
The state of the tip links when there are no action potentials occuring on the cochlear nerve.
What is slack?
The receptor type that is activated when you eat a lemon
What is ion channel?
The term used to categorize hormones that stimulate the secretion of hormones from peripheral glands
What is tropic?