Senses In General
Phasic receptors found throughout the skin, hypothalamus and skeletal muscles, used to detect changes in temperature.
What are Thermoreceptors?
Taste buds found on the lateral sides of the tongue are able to detect this type of taste, often found in foods such as potato chips.
What is Salty?
To nod your head up and down in this dynamic rotation circulates endolymph fluid within this looped structure, activating its crista receptors.
What is the Anterior Semicircular Canal?
These types of photoreceptor, found in the retinal layer of the eye, is best used for color vision and comes in the colors Red, Green, & Blue.
What are Cones?
This type of nocireception is a sensation felt typically following the amputation of a limb.
What is Phantom Pain?
Dissolved odorants bind to a protein in the nasal mucus layer which then activate this particular enzyme, leading to ATP turning into cAMP.
What is Adenylate Cyclase?
To measure the height/volume of an audio wave by decibels is to measure this audio-related factor.
What is Amplitude?
When focusing on an object that's far away from you, make sure that these happen to the following:
The Suspensory Ligaments/Ciliary Zonules (contract or relax?)
The Ciliary Muscles (contract or relax?)
The Lens ( flat or round?)
Ciliary Muscles: Relax
Lens: Flat
A tactile mechanoreceptor that activates from deep touch pressure.
What is a Pacinian Corpuscle?
This neurotransmitter is needed to bind to sodium channels in the nasal passages, converted initially from ATP.
What is Cyclic-AMP (cAMP)?
The otoliths of this part of the vestibule activate the underlying hair cells when changes in position & movement are detected on the horizontal plane.
What is the Utricle?
A person with age-related worsening of vision may have this type of visual acuity problem.
What is Presbyopia?
Blood pressure machines measure this type of general sensory information by detecting pressure changes in the walls of blood vessels and other organs
What is Baroreception?
This cranial nerve innervates 1/3 of the tongue, focusing on taste buds found on the posterior section.
What is the Glossopharyngeal Nerve (IX) ?
This spiral snail-shell shaped structure is used for the purpose of delivering vibrations to be processed in the form of sound.
What is the Cochlea?
If a person's visual acuity chart reads that they have 20/15 vision, then the person's vision is (better or worse) than the average individual.
Better.
(The smaller the number is than 20, the better the acuity. The higher the number, the worse the acuity)
Sharp fast pains, such as those from a knife cut injury, are detected thanks to these nocireceptor fibers
What are Type A fibers?
This cranial nerve innervates taste buds found within the pharynx.
What is the Vagus Nerve? (X)
Blockage of vibrations from reaching the middle ear is this type of condition.
What is Conduction Deafness?
During photoreception, a photon activates Rhodopsin, a combination of retinal and opsin, which then causes activated opsin to interact with what other 2 enzymes?