In The Eye
This is where light can enter to reach the back of the eye.
What is the Pupil?
Measured in decibles and logarithmic scale.
This includes rapid eye movement, frequent low amplitude waves, the brain is awake but the body is not.
What is the REM cycle?
This is released in a sympathetic response.
Pain felt in a location other than where it originates.
What is referred pain?
This gland produces tears.
What is the Lacrimal Gland?
Hair cells in the organ of corti are attached to this.
What is the tectorial membrane?
This is the transitional phase occurring between wakefulness and sleep.
What is stage 1 sleep?
Pair of small branches leading to the chain ganglia in the sympathetic division.
What are communicating rami?
This sits on top of the eye and allows for movement.
The indentation of the macula lutea
What is fovea centralis?
The organ of corti sits here.
What is the basilar membrane?
Categorized by a very large, sharp wave that occurs in stage 2 sleep.
What is K complex?
This stimulate skeletal muscles.
What is acetylcholine?
Condition in which both eyes are NOT focusing together.
What is diplopia?
The membrane at the entrance of the cochlea in which vibrations are transmitted.
What is the oval window?
A rapid burst of brain activity that occurs in stage 2 sleep.
This cholinergic receptor is mostly inhibitory and found in the parasympathetic division.
What is muscarine?
Very large and found in the back of the tongue.
Visual pigments in the cones that absorb bright colored light.
What are photopsins?
Where are the hair cells located in the Organ of Corti attached?
What is the tectorial membrane?
These are seen in infants when they are awake but adults when in a deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
What is Thoracolumbar?
This is the visual way to show where in the primary somesthetic cortex information is sent.
What is somatotopy?