Gustation (taste)
Olfaction (smell)
Equilibrium (balance)
Audition (hearing)
Vision (sight)
100
This is the specific location of the receptors for gustation
What are taste buds?
100
The primary organ of olfaction
What is the nose?
100
The receptor type for the sense of equilibrium/balance
What are mechanoreceptors?
100
The receptor type for the sense of audition/hearing?
What are mechanoreceptors?
100
The primary organ of vision
What are the eyes?
200
This fluid helps to dissolved chemicals in food and assists in regulating the ion environment in the mouth
What is saliva?
200
The receptor type that collect olfactory/smell information
What are chemoreceptors?
200
These tubes of fluid in the inner ear detect head movements and therefore regulate equilibrium
What are the semicircular canals?
200
These are the names of the three middle ear bones
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
200
Special sensory receptors in the eye that convert light energy into nerve impulses
What are photoreceptors?
300
One of the three cranial nerves the sense of gustation affects
What is the facial (VII), glossopharyngeal (IX), or vagus (X) nerve?
300
Cranial nerve that controls olfaction (name and number)
What is the olfactory nerve (I)?
300
This is the otolithic organ that communicates with the cochlea
What is the saccule?
300
This cranial nerve delivers auditory (and vestibular!) information to the brain
(Name AND number!)
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve (8th)?
300
The name for the watery fluid in front of the lens of the eye
What is the aqueous humor?
400
Papillae that lie in a V-shaped row at the anterior of the tongue and contain about 50% of taste buds
What are vallate papillae?
400
Olfactory epithelium is this specific type of tissue
What is pseudostratified columnar epithelium?
400
Name one of the three places equilibrium information will end up at the end of the vestibular pathway
What is spinal cord, cerebellum, or cerebrum?
400
What is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?
400
The place in the brain where the optic nerves physically cross to the other side of the brain
What is the optic chiasma?
500
The type of taste buds involved in bitter, sweet, and umami taste
What are Type II gustatory epithelial cells?
500
The olfactory sensory neurons/receptors utilize these structures to better collect odor molecules
What are cilia?
500
This is the name of the cavity within the temporal bone that the inner ear lies
What is the vestibular labryinth?
500
The part of the inner ear that converts vibrations into electrochemical signals
What is the organ of corti?
500
The layer of the retina that contains photoreceptors
What is the neural layer?