Sight
The nerve that carries signals from the eye to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
The three regions of the ear.
What are the inner ear, middle ear, and outer ear?
This exits the body either through the nose or down the throat.
What is mucous?
What are tastebuds?
The function of photoreceptors in the skin.
What is the act of detecting damaging levels of UV and increasing melanin production?
Widens and closes to adjust amount of light.
What is the pupil?
The substance that makes the outer ear appear to be flimsy, bendable.
What is cartilage?
The hair lining the inside of the nasal passages.
What are cilia?
The other sense that functions hand in hand with taste to identify the flavor of foods.
What is the sense of smell?
The typical number of neurons in a somatosensory pathway.
The two types of receptors for the eye.
A spiral-shaped structure in the inner ear that allows for the interpretation of sound as nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
The wall that separates the two nasal passages.
What is the nasal septum?
The change in saliva production as one ages.
What is the act of decreasing?
The number of different types of mechanoreceptors.
What is the number 4?
Is prevalent at night; only allows for people to make out shadows and shapes, but no color.
What are rods?
The small, tiny bones that aid in amplifying a sound wave.
What are the hammer, anvil and stirrup?
Receives odor molecules and transmits them as nerve pulses.
What is the olfactory epithelium?
What mechanoreceptors are able to map to help determining taste.
What is texture?
The two major pathways of which somatosensory information passes along.
What are the lemniscus pathway and the gracilis pathway?
Light is projected onto this to be interpreted as nerve impulses.
What is the retina?
The vestibular system that controls balance.
What are the semicircular canals?
Made up of several layers of epithelial cells on top of connective tissue.
What is a mucous membrane?
The number of generic taste categories.
What is the number 5?
What is the lemniscus pathway?