Special Sense of Taste (Gustation)
Chemical Properties of Taste Sensation
Hearing
Hearing cont'd
Inner Ear A+P
100

How many tastebuds are located within the tongue?

What is 5,000-10,000

100

Sweet foods are high in ____

What are carbs

100

The receptors for hearing are found in the _____

What is the Cochlea

100

The height of the waves in the cochlea determine the ____

What is amplitude

100

The vestibule contains receptors to detect _______

What is static equilibrium

200

Taste buds contain what kind of cells?

What are Gustatory cells

200

Salty foods are high in what elements?

What are sodium, chloride, and or potassium

200
The receptor neurons are contained within the "Spiral Organ" AKA the ____
What is the Organ of Corti
200

Which nerve do impulses travel along to brain stem, thalamus

What is the vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII)

200

True or False, static equilibrium takes place when the body is in motion

What is false

300

Taste hairs are free nerve endings of ____

What are microvilli

300

How many different proteins do savory foods contain?

What is 35

300

The Organ of Corti's receptor hair cells sit on tip of what membrane?

What is the basilar membrane

300

Impulses processed by which lobes of cerebral cortex

What are the temporal lobes

300

3 semi-circular canals contain receptors to detect ______

What is dynamic equilibrium

400

Taste buds are located in ____

What are papillae

400

Impulse travels from cranial nerves: __, __, and __ to which lobe?

What are the facial (VII), glossopharyngeal (IX), and the vagus (X) nerve, along with the parietal lobe.

400

The Organ of Corti consists of receptor hair cells with ____

What are stereocilia

400

Hearing loss can either be ______ or ______

What are conductive and sensorineural

400

Receptors in the 3 semicircular canals detect _____ and ____ while body is in motion

What are balance and position

500

Taste hairs project through an opening in the tongue called a ____

What is a taste pore

500

Pain response if often to the chemical ____, which is found in spicy foods

What is capsaicin

500

The location of waves in the cochlea determine the _____

What is frequency

500

This kind of hearing loss entails a problem getting sound waves to the cochlea

What is conductive

500

What structures are important in providing info used to control balance/equilibrium

What are proprioceptors, vision, and structures in vestibule and semicircular canals

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