The Senses
What are the 2 categories of senses?
What are General & Special.
What is another name for our sense of hearing?
What is auditory.
Approximately how many taste buds does the average human have on the roof of their mouth and walls of their throat?
What is 1,000.
What is another name given for our sense of smell?
What is the olfactory.
The 3 accessory organs of sight include the eyelids, extrinsic muscles, and this?
What is the lacrimal apparatus.
The sense of touch falls in what sense category?
What is a general sense.
The 3 the smallest bones in the human body are located in the ear. They include the incus, stapes, and?
What is the malleus.
What sensory receptor contributes to our sense of taste?
What are chemoreceptors.
What sensory receptor deals with our sense of smell?
What are chemoreceptors.
What is the sensory receptor responsible for sight?
When you enter a flower shop and smell is wonderful, however the scent quickly seems to fade away, you have experienced what?
What is another name for the inner ear?
What is the labyrinth.
How often are our sensory receptors replaced?
What is every 10 days.
What canal does our sense of smell take place?
What is our nasal canal.
What are the colors represented in each wavelength?
What is blue for short wavelengths, green for medium wavelengths, and red for long wavelengths.
A sensation occurs when?
What is when receptors are stimulated and send impulses to the stimuli.
What is another name for the eardrum?
What is the tympanic membrane.
Taste buds on its surface are known as this.
What is the papillae.
What kind of molecules are released in the nasal cavity to help us smell?
What are odorant molecules.
The eye condition glaucoma occurs when there is an accumulation of this fluid?
What is aqueous humor.
Warm and cold receptors are located in this layer of the skin?
What is the dermis.
The labyrinths in the ear contain this part of the inner, which functions in hearing, but most importantly, the function of equilibrium.
What is the cochlea.
The 5 primary taste sensations include...
What is sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory.
What is the condition called when you lose you sense of taste?
What is anosmia.
What is fluid found within the eye called?
What is vitreous humor.