Sight
This cranial nerve trasmits signals from the eyes to the brain.
What is the optic nerve? (CN 2)
This cranial nerve transmits signals from the nose to the brain.
What is the olfactory nerve? (CN 1)
This cranial nerve is one of three cranial nerves associated with the sense of taste.
What is the- facial, glossopharyngeal, vagus? (CN7),(CN8),(CN10)
This cranial nerve transmits auditory signals to the brain.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve? (CN 8)
The signals of touch and more are sent through this vital structure back to the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
These special structures sense color and are highly concentrated in the fovea.
What are cones?
This slimy mixture is actually very beneficial for the nose and aids in the collection of gaseous particles.
What is mucus?
These tiny hills and valleys on the tongue contain taste buds and help improve the sense of taste.
What are papillae?
Also known as sound, the frequency of these waves are gathered and processed, enabling animals to hear.
What are air pressure waves/ shockwaves?
These small structures are essential to the sense of touch as a whole.
What are mechanoreceptors / sensory corpuscles?
This limited range of vision is characteristic of many vertebrates, including dogs.
What is dichromatic vision?
Working with the iconic forked tongue of snakes, this organ is commonly called the Jacobson's organ.
What is the vomeronasal organ?
These tiny hairs located on taste buds help collect chemicals for tasting.
What are microvilli?
This bone gives the snake its limited sense of hearing.
What is the columella?
This sense is made possible by mechanoreceptors located in the muscles and tendons.
What is proprioception?
The sense of sight detects some of this, better known as light.
What is electromagnetic radiation
These olfactory stimuli come from animals, and are used to find mates.
What are pheromones?
Produced by some plants as a potential defense mechanism, this chemical is known for giving things their spicy taste.
What is capsacin?
This fluid filled space helps translate mechanical vibrations of the ear bones to auditory signals in the nerve.
What is the cochlea?
These sensory corpuscles, located in the dermal papillae, help sense textures, corners, edges, and curves.
What are Merkel's disks/ Merkel Cells?
Located in the interior of this thin structure, rods and cones are responsible for collecting light and transmitting signals.
What is the retina?
Nerves in the nose pass through the ethmoid bone from this sensory structure.
What is the olfactory bulb?
This type of papillae is the only form to not contain any taste buds.
What is filiform papillae?
This structure connecting the middle ear to the nasal-sinus cavity is essential for keeping air pressure at a safe level
What are Eustachian tubes?
Located nearest the skin surface, these free nerve endings detect pain.
What are nociceptors?