Sense and Sensibility
Skin Deep
The Nose Knows
Hear, hear!
Unbalanced
The Eyes Have It
100
Respond to heat or cold
What are thermoreceptors?
100
The name of this cutaneous receptor and its purpose
What is a hair follicle receptor?
Purpose: detect movement of hair
100
Qualities of substances that be be smelled
- Volatile
- Partly water soluble to get through mucus layer
- Partly lipid soluble to cross cell membrane
100
The external flap on the side of your head to collect sound
What is the ear auricle?
100
Inner ear organ of balance
What are the semicircular canals?
100
Fluid which maintains the general shape of the eyeball
What is vitreous?
200
Receptors found in the skin
What are cutaneous receptors?
200
Name this cutaneous receptor and its purpose
What is a Pacinian corpuscle?
Purpose: pressure receptors
200
Reason you don't continue smelling a certain scent after time
What is adaptation?
200
Another name for the ear canal
External auditory meatus
200
Two types of equilibrium
What is static and dynamic?
200
The part of the eye which bends light to focus it on the retina
What is the lens?
300
Receptors found in the muscles and tendons
What are proprioceptors?
300
Identify these skin receptors and their purpose:
Free nerve endings: receptors for heat, cold, itch, pain
300
5 Taste sensations
What are sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami?
300
This ear structure vibrates first when sound wave hit it
What is the tympanic membrane?
300
This type of equilibrium determines the orientation of the head relative to the pull of gravity
What is static equilibrium?
300
Part of the eye which contains the photoreceptors
What is the retina?
400
Respond to excess stimulation or pain
What are nociceptors?
400
Identify this cutaneous receptor and its purpose
What is Ruffini's organ?
Purpose: Pressure and stretch receptors
400
Type of tissue lining the inside of the nose
What is epithelium?
400
The malleus, incus, and stapes are these structures
What are auditory ossicles?
400
This helps determine the rotation and acceleration of the head, and allows us to maintain balance
What is dynamic equilibrium?
400
This part of the eye smooths, protect, and lubricates the exposed part of the sclera
What is the conjunctiva?
500
Receptors that respond to movement
What are mechanoreceptors?
500
Identify this cutaneous receptor and its purpose
Merkel's disks for light touch
500
Bumps on the tongue are called this
What are papillae? (circumvallate, filiform, foilate, fungiform)
500
This structure in the inner ear responsible for the sense of hearing
What is the cochlea?
500
The ampulla, supporting cells, hair cells, and crista ampullaris are involved with this type of equilibrium
What is dynamic equilibrium?
500
This muscle changes the shape of the lens
What is the ciliary body/muscle?
600
Receptors in the internal organs
What are visceral receptors?
600
Identify the circled cutaneous nerve and its purpose
Meissner's corpuscles: 2 point discrimination (light touch and pressure)
600
The reason you are unable to smell a substance is volatile, partially lipid and water soluble
What is you don't have a receptor for that chemical?
(Or the chemical is unable to reach your receptors)
600
The order that sound passes through the hearing organs
What is tympanic membrane, malleus, incus, stapes, basilar membrane, tectorial membrane?
600
The utricular macula, vestibule (with utricle and saccule), saccular macula, otoliths, gelatinous matrix, kinocilium, stereocilia, hair cell, and cupula are all involved in this type of equilibrium
What is static equilibrium?
600
Cones are concentrated in this part of the eye
What is the fovea centralis?