Eye Anatomy
In the retina and involved in dim light.
What are rods?
The external and visible portion of the ear.
What is the pinna (auricle)?
This is the type of receptors of smell.
What are chemoreceptors?
These structures are muscles involved in accommodation.
What is the ciliary body?
Increased internal pressure of the eyeball.
What is a glaucoma?
This structure where sound waves are amplified.
What is the tympanic membrane (eardrum)?
These include touch, pain, pressure, temperature.
What are somatic senses?
This muscle pulls on the lens to focus our vision at different distances.
What is the ciliary body?
This is the name where sharpest vision occurs.
What is the fovea centralis?
These are the names of the 3 ossicles of the middle ear.
What are the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrup)?
This structure is responsible for maintaining ear pressure.
What is the eustachian tube?
The colored muscle that opens and closes the pupil depending on light conditions.
What is the iris?
These nipple-like structures are involved in taste.
What are papillae?
This is the biconvex, clear structure which can change shape to focus light precisely.
What is the lens?
All the nerves exit the eye creating a spot of no vision.
What is the blind spot?
This is the name of the hearing organ.
What is the cochlea?
Gustatory receptors are part of this sense
What is the sense of taste?