Ear
Nose
Tongue
Diseases
Vocabualry
100
What is part of the ear funnels sound into the ear canal?
Pinna
100
What are the two holes that smells flow through called?
The Nostrils.
100
What are the four parts flavor parts of the tongue?
Sweet, Salty, Sour, and Bitter
100
What is a constant roaring or ringing in the ears called?
Tinnitus
100
What is the definition of the cochlea?
Liquid filled tube that keeps balance
200
What is the smallest bone in the human body that happens to be in the ear called?
Stapes
200
Where do the smells get picked up inside the nasal cavity?
The olfactory epithelium
200
What are the tiny bumps on your tongue that are inside the papillae called?
Taste Buds
200
What is the inability to smell called?
Anosmia
200
What is the definition of microvilli?
Tiny hairs on the taste buds that interpret taste
300
What part of the ear keeps your balance, or equilibrium?
The Semicircular Canals
300
What is the outside of the nose made of?
Cartilage
300
What are the things on the tongue, that the taste buds are inside?
Papillae
300
What is the inability to taste called?
Ageusia
300
What is the limbic area?
Part of the brain that interprets smell
400
What is the liquid filled snail shell like organ called that filters sound to the ear?
The Cochlea
400
What are the nerves that transmit smells to the brain called?
The Olfactory Nerves
400
What are the tiny hairs on your taste buds called?
Microvilli
400
What is a decreased ability to taste called?
Hypogeusia
400
What is cartilage?
Shark-like skin that makes up the pinna and the outside of the nose.
500
What is the tube called that drips mucus from the middle ear called?
Eustacian Tube
500
What is the part of the brain that deals with smell called?
The Limbic Area
500
What is 80% of taste affected by?
Smell
500
What is a very uncontrolable diziness called?
Menieres Disease
500
This is not a vocabulary question. Name all the parts of one of the subjects (Taste, Hearing, Smell)
Taste- Taste Buds, Microvilli, Papillae, Sweet, Salty, Sour, and Bitter Smell- Olfactory Epithelium, Nostrils, Olfactory Nerves, Limbic Area Hearing- Pinna, Ear Canal, Ear Drum, Eustacian Tube, Malleus, Incus, Stapes, Cochlea, Semicircular Canals
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