Sight
These cells enable you to see in color
Your nose
This is extremely valuable and helps move food around your mouth
Tongue
The ears make this to keep foreign particles from getting to the middle or inner ear
Wax
Our one general sense
Touch
A spot on the retina where the cones are concentrated
Fovea
your sense of smell is accomplished with this system
Olfactory
The reaction of your taste buds depends on this
temperature
Tiny stones in the ear that help you with balance
Otoliths
The sense not typically included when discussing our five senses
balance
Cells that enable you to see in dim light
Rods
a cluster of smell sensors in the roof of the upper nose
Olfactory epithelium
Your sense of taste is connected to this other sense
smell
Bone in the middle ear also known as the hammer
Malleus
The part of the ear you can see from the outside
The Pinna
The part of the eye that adjusts how much light gets in
Iris
Hairs projecting out from the olfactory cells
Cilia
Damage to this lobe of the brain can impact your sense of taste
Temporal
Bone in the middle ear also known as the anvil
Incus
A tough thin bag that forms your eyeball
Sclera
The part of the eye through which light enters
Pupil
Once an odor reaches your cilia, the olfactory cells send signals to neurons in these, which then take the information to the brain
Olfactory bulbs
This is where your taste buds are found
The taste buds are found in the papillae of the tongue (This is the complete sentence you will need for the test!)
Bone in the middle ear also known as the stirrup (also the smallest bone in the human body)
Stapes
The five taste sensations
sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami