Autonomic Nervous System
Thee initials ANS stand for this.
What is Autonomic Nervous System
The colored part of the eye.
What is the iris?
External visible portion of ear.
What is auricle
How receptors for smell and taste are classified.
What are chemoreceptors
organ that responds to a specific type of stimulus by triggering an action potential on a sensory neuron
What is a sensory receptor
Another name for the autonomic nervous system?
What is the involuntary nervous system?
Blood vessels of the eye are found here.
What is the choroid coat.
The malleus, incus, and stapes collectively
What is the auditory ossicles
One of these is not a taste bud classification: sweet, sour, spicy, umami
What is spicy
receptors in the internal organs
What are visceral receptors
The name of the two arms of the ANS.
What is Sympathetic and Parasympathetic?
photoreceptors that help to see in dim light
What are rods?
contains the organ of hearing (organ of Corti)
What is the cochlea
Tiny bumps on the surface of the tongue.
What are papillae
Sensory receptors that respond to pain
Some signs of sympathetic nervous system activity.
What are Pounding heart, rapid, deep breathing, cold, sweaty skin, dilated eye pupils.
The sclera and cornea make up this.
What is the fibrous tunic
vibrations of the cochlear duct cause the cilia of the hair cells to bend against this membrane.
What is the tectorial membrane
Term used for air-born molecules.
What is volatile
Receptors in the skeletal muscles and tendons
What are proprioceptors
When the parasympathetic division is active?
What is It is active when the body is at rest and not threatened.
Loss of the lenses ability to accommodate.
What is presbyopia?
vibrates when struck by sound waves (located in the middle ear)
What is the tympanic membrane
Two ways a substance has to be soluble in order to be processed by olfaction.
What is water soluble and lipid soluble
receptors in the skin that detect heat, cold, itch, and pain
What are free nerve endings