Gusty Gustation
These taste buds give us the sense of something bitter and are located at the posterior of the tongue.
What are vallate lingual papillae?
The region in the superior nasal cavity where the initial sensory olfactory neurons are located.
This is the technical term for taste.
What is gustation?
These are the 3 ossicles of the middle ear.
What are the malleus, incus and stapes?
This muscle group of 6 muscles is named for its involvement in moving the eye.
What are the extraocular muscles?
These taste buds give us the sense of something sweet and are located at the superficial surface of the tongue.
What are fungiform lingual papillae?
Olfactory neurons are this subcategory of neurons.
What is a bipolar neuron?
This is the technical term for smell.
What is Olfaction?
This is commonly known as the ear drum and vibrates when struck by sounds waves.
What is the tympanic membrane?
The outer most layer of the eye which contains the sclera and cornea.
What is the tunica fibrosa?
These taste buds give us the sense of something sour and salty and are located at the lateral surfaces of the tongue.
What are foliate lingual papillae?
These molecules use proteins to stay dissolved in mucus and act as the signaling molecule for olfactory neurons.
What are odorant molecules?
This is the technical term for hearing.
What is Audition?
These are the 3 regions of the inner ear.
The inner most layer of the eye containing the retina and ora serrata.
What is the tunica interna?
These are the cells within taste buds that are responsible for the transduction of taste stimuli.
What are gustatory receptor cells?
Olfactory neuron receptors exhibit this type of reception.
What is metabotropic chemoreception?
This is the technical term for the sense of sight.
What is vision?
These two fluid filled scala run along both sides of the cochlear duct.
What are the scala tympani and the scala vestibuli?
These cells in the eye are enabled in low light and see shades of gray.
What are Rods?
Taste molecules bind to these receptors.
What are ionotropic receptors that allow calcium influx?
The group of axons called the olfactory tract connect to this, on the ventral surface of the frontal lobe.
What is the Olfactory Bulb?
What is A&P?
These are the sensory cells of the ear that send sound information to CN VIII.
What are Hair Cells?
These cells of the eye are enabled in bright light and see shades of colors.
What are cones?