Touch
Our skin holds thousands of what kinds of cells?
Where is taste perceived on the tongue?
What is taste buds
Where is the olfactory epithelium located in the nasal cavity?
What is the roof of the nasal cavity
What is the most important sensory organ?
What is sight
The sense of touch conveys important social information and tells you when something is dangerous by letting you feel what?
What is pain.
The tongue's mucous membranes contain many what to test the things we eat and drink?
What is taste receptors.
The olfacotry epithelium contains what that detects smell?
What is receptors
What nerve is responsible for carrying the signals to the visual cortex of the brain?
What is optic nerve.
What receptors pick up sensory information when something comes in contact with your skin?
What is tactile receptors.
Taste stimuli triggers what?
What is increased saliva and stomach acid to start digestion.
What are the tiny hair in the back of the nose that keeps mucus out of lungs and sinuses?
What is cilia
Light enters the eye through what?
What is the cornea.
What are the senses of skin?
What is touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.
Taste is perceived by specialized cells located where on the tongue?
What is papillae.
What lines the inner part of the nasal cavity?
What is nasal mucosa
Movement of the eye is controlled by what muscle?
What is extrinsic muscles.
What areas are more sensitive when touched?
What is hands, feet, and lips
Our tongue has different senses - what are they?
What is sour, bitter, sweet, and salty.
What is the technical term for the sense of smell?
What is Olfaction
What is the clear jelly like substance that fills the center of the eye called?
What is the vitreous humor.