Sensory info.
Parts of the eye
Parts of the ear
Defects of the eye
Defects of the ear
100
The number of stimulus receptors in the human body
What is 8?
100
These receptors respond to low intensity light and contain this light sensitive pigment.
What are rods and rhodopsin?
100
Calcium carbonate rocks
What are otoliths?
100
A buildup of the fluid usual drained from the anterior chamber of the eye.
What is glaucoma?
100
A deafness to certain frequencies.
What are selective broken hairs?
200
These are the two types of chemical receptors.
What are taste and smell?
200
This eye component changes shape in order to control the amount of light entering the eye.
What is the retina?
200
They come in 3s.
What are the semi circular canals.
200
The build up of layers of protein on the lens preventing the required change in shape.
What is a gradual loss of near point accomodation due to?
200
A blockage in the outer ear preventing the movement of sound waves to the eardrum.
What is wax buildup?
300
This word also means, "savoury"
What is umami?
300
Humans have one, birds of prey may have two.
What is the fovea centralis?
300
This part takes it's name from the latin word for "snail"
What is the cochlea?
300
A vision condition that comes in three varieties based on the defect in one of three components of the eye.
What is colourblindness?
300
Everything works fine, but there is no transfer from the ossicles to the fluid in the vestibule.
What is a broken eardrum?
400
These receptors detect changes in temperature.
What are thermoreceptors?
400
This layer provides the retina with this vital substance. 2
What is the choroid layer, and blood?
400
Home of the saccule and the ultricle
What is the vestibule?
400
A condition where the lens or the cornea become cloudy, distorting vision.
What are cataracts?
400
The loss of hearing due to a problem with the auditory nerve, or the hair cells.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
500
The reason you only feel your shirt when you first put it on, but then your brain seems to ignore that sensation.
What is Sensory adaptation?
500
Accommodation requires these two things.
What is a change in the shape of the lens, and a change in the size of the pupil. (retina accepted)
500
The structure which vibrates with sound waves in the fluid of the ear, rubbing the hair cells in the organ of corti against the tectorial membrane.
What is the basil membrane?
500
Myopia and Hyperopia.
What is the scientific name for nearsightedness, and farsightedness?
500
Aging, head trauma, genetic conditions, exposure to loud noises.
What are causes of sensorineural deafness?
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