Eye Anatomy
Steroid hormone
Testosterone, estrogen, cortisol
Most focusing of vision is from this structure
Lens
Calcitonin secreted by this gland
Parathyroid gland
This is the type of receptors of smell.
What are chemoreceptors?
These structures are muscles involved in accommodation.
What is the ciliary body?
Amine hormone
epinephrine, NE
Gel-like humor that gives shape to the eyeball
Vitreous humor
Glucocorticoids (cortisol) is secreted by this gland
adrenal cortex
The number of olfactory receptors in nasal epithelium.
up to 20 million
This is highly vascularized (darkest) with blood vessels?
What is the choroid?
Peptide hormone
insulin, GH
This is the name where sharpest vision occurs.
What is the fovea centralis?
Disease of low cortisol of adrenal cortex
Addison's disease
Number of taste buds in adults
10,000
Optic chiasmata (Where optic nerve crosses)
Hormones secreted by posterior pituitary
Oxytocin, ADH
Cones are highly concentrated here
Fovea centralis (dented thus sharpest vision)
High T-3 and T-4 disease
hyperthyroidism
Which taste is considered protective?
Bitter (back of tongue - poisons)
Fluid between cornea & lens
aqueous humor
TSH stimulated by this gland
Thyroid gland
Name of lens that have lost elasticity and thus needs bifocals
Presbyopia
Increased secretions from parathyroid gland ___ calcium in bone
increases
Cranial Nerves of taste?
V, IX, X