Somatic Senses
When walking into room, a person collides into the furniture, not sensing the chair's distance
Proprioception
Receptors activated when smelling baked cookies
Chemoreceptors
Means tears
Lacrimal
Outer tunic
Fibrous
Provides UV protection to retina
Iris
Smokers are not bothered by the smell of cigarettes because they get accustomed to the odor
Sensory adaptation
Photoreceptors
If you touch your eye, the fluid in contact with your finger is
Conjunctiva
This tunic contains blood vessels.
Vascular tunic
Muscle that contracts to accommodates the eye to see near objects
Ciliary body
When learning to drive a car, the brain maps how much to turn the steering wheel without hitting the curb
Sensory projection
The taste buds react to the hot peppers
Gustatory receptors
Conjunctivitis is called this.
Pink eye
Tunic that includes the retina with lots of nerves
Nervous tunic
Allows you to see objects in dim light
Rods
Includes pain, touch, temperature
Somatic senses
The loud music moves hair cells in the ears transmitting sound waves.
Mechanoreceptors
Canaliculi
drains tears
The window of the eye
Cornea
Allows you to see the colors red, green, blue
Cones
Includes feeling dizzy from ear disturbances, sight, and smell
Special Senses
Your face feels the hot from the campfire
Thermoreceptors
Sac that collects tears
lacrimal sac
The white part of the eye
Sclera
Captures photons of light
Retina