Touch
This is the largest sensory organ for detecting touch
Skin
Part of your eye that can constrict and dilate to control the amount of light coming through
Pupil
This brings information from your ears to your brain
Auditory Nerve
Taste and smell are a result of these type of receptors
Chemorecptors
Name a sense that is not considered a "special" sense
Touch, temperature, pressure, pain
These are the primary receptors responsible for detecting "touch" stimulus
Mechanoreceptors
This lobe of the brain controls visual processing
Occipital
These are the primary type of receptors found in the ears
Mechanoreceptors
This causes scent blindness
overexposure of a smell
The sensation of balance is housed in this body region
Ear
These receptors are responsible for responding to deep pressure and stretching of the sin
Ruffini's Corpuscles
Responsible for color-vision processing
Cones
These are the 3 bones in the middle ear
Malleus, incus, and stapes
(I would also accept hammer, anvil, stirrup)
Why does taste increase when you chew food?
Because it releases more scent molecules which are directly related to the ability to taste.
What classifies something as a "special" sense
These receptors are primarily found in areas of hairless skin
Meissner's
This is the point on the retina where the sharpest image can be detected
Fovea centralis
This is the name of the fluid in your ear and the structure where it is found
perilymph and it is found in the cochlea
This type of epithelium tissue is used to detect smell
olfactory epithelium
What type of temperature is the body better at detecting and why?
Cold because you have more cold receptors and cooler temps tend to have a greater difference from body temp compared to warm/hot temps.
These receptors are sensitive to deep pressure and vibrations
Pacinian Corpuscles
If you were looking at an individual eyeball during a dissection and it was flat, what likely happened?
The vitreous humor flowed out
Name the order in which sound waves flow through the ear? (Need 5 anatomical terms in the pathway)
auricle --> auditory canal --> tympanic membrane --> ossicles --> cochlea
This is the name of the specialized receptor cells found in taste buds
Gustatory
Explain where tears originate and the pathway that they travel before being excreted.
Tears start in the lacrimal gland and then drain into the lacrimal duct (lacrimal canaliculi), then move to the lacrimal sac, and finally into the nasal cavity through the nasolacrimal duct.