Eye
Eye II
Ear
Taste/Smell/Touch
Miscellaneous
100
Innermost layer of the eyeball...actual receptor (nervous layer)
What is the retina?
100
Outermost layer of the eyeball...made of connective tissue.
What is the sclera?
100
Contains sensory receptors responsible for hearing and equilibrium.
What is the inner ear?
100
Sweet, Salty, Sour and Bitter.
What are the 4 basic taste receptors?
100
Vision, hearing, equilibrium, taste, smell.
What are functions of the sensory system?
200
The white of the eye.
What is the sclera?
200
Second layer of the eyeball...vascular layer.
What is the Choroid?
200
Contains 3 small bones or ossicles that amplify the sounds waves recieved by the tympanic membrane.
What is the middle ear?
200
Sense of smell.
What is Olfaction?
200
Nearsightedness....result of light focusing in front of the retina.
What is myopia?
300
Contains muscles that regulates the amount of light that enters the eye.
What is the iris?
300
Responsible for night vision...dark adaption.
What are rods?
300
Malleus, Incus and Stapes.
What is the name of the 3 small bones in the middle ear?
300
Include touch, pressure, temperature and pain.
What are tactile receptors?
300
Farsightedness that occurs with age.
What is Presbyopia?
400
Constricts when bright light is shined in it.
What is the pupil?
400
Responsible for color vision.
What are cones?
400
Contains vestibule, semicircular canals, and cochlea.
What is the inner ear?
400
Impulses for this sense are sent via the olfactory nerve to the brain's temporal cortex.
What is the Olfactory nerve?
400
Receptors for this sense are especially numerous in the tips of the fingers and the toes.
What is the sense of touch?
500
Contains rods and cones.
What is the retina?
500
Space behind the lens.
What is the vitreous chamber?
500
Connects the middle ear cavity with the throat (pharynx).
What is the eustachian tube?
500
Facial nerve and Glossopharyngeal nerves.
What are the nerves of taste?
500
Ability of sensory receptors to adjust themselves so that a continuous stimulus becomes less acute.
What is Sensory adaptation?
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