What Did You Say?
Medical term for ear wax
What is cerumen?
The transparent part of the eye over the iris.
What is the cornea?
Medical term for the sense of taste.
What is gustation?
Often referred to as our "sense of gravity"
What is static equilibrium?
Medical term for the sense of smell.
What is olfaction?
Otitis Media
What is a middle ear infection?
Receptors in the eye for day vision and color.
What are the cones?
Four of the six primary taste modes.
What are:
Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty, Metallic, and Unami?
Often referred to as our "sense of motion"
What is dynamic equilibrium?
Vestibular mechanoreceptors
What are the specific mechanoreceptors for balance and spatial awareness?
Connects the middle ear to the back of the throat
What are the eustachian tubes?
Nearsightedness
What is myopia?
Where the memory of a smell is stored in the brain.
What is the limbic system?
Where the mechanoreceptors for balance are located.
What are the vestibule and the semicircular canals of the inner ear?
Microscopic molecules released by substances around us—whether it's coffee brewing or pine trees in a forest - stimulate the receptors on olfactory neurons.
What triggers the sense of smell?
FYI: Each olfactory neuron has only one receptor.
The structure in the ear that vibrates when sound waves travel through the acoustic canal
What is the tympanic membrane?
Improper alignment of the eys
What is strabismus?
Gustatory cells
The sensation of spinning
What is vertigo?
Cranial nerve which contains olfactory receptors and lies in the mucosa of the nasal cavity.
What is CN 1?
The ossicles of the middle ear
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
What is the loss of only the central visual field when only certain nerve pathways are damaged?
The two primary cranial nerves (CN) where nerve impulses travel to the taste area of the cerebral cortex.
What are CN VII and CN IX?
Cranial nerve known as the vestibular nerve
What is CN VIII
Olfactory Adaptation or fatigue
What is the decreased ability to smell an odor after the initial encounter, such as a smoker does not smell the odor as the sense of smell has adapted to not cause olfactory overload.