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The General Senses
Smell/Taste
Vision
Hearing
Miscellaneous
100
Pain receptors
What are nociceptors?
100
The sense of smell is provided by __________ organs
What is olfactory?
100
This lines the inner surfaces of the eyelid and outer surfaces of the eyes.
What is the conjunctiva?
100
Another name for the eardrum
What is tympanic membrane?
100
Information that arrives at the CNS in the form of action potentials
What is a sensation?
200
Receptors that monitor the position of joints and muscular contractions.
What are proprioreceptors?
200
The olfactory organs are located in this cavity.
What is nasal?
200
Produces, dsitributes, and removes tears
What is the lacrimal apparatus?
200
Glands that secrete ear wax
What is ceruminous gland?
200
The conscious awareness of sensation
What is perception?
300
Receptors that monitor changes in pressure
What are baroreceptors?
300
Taste receptors
What are gustatory receptors?
300
This part of the eye changes shape to focus an image.
What is the lens?
300
Besides hearing, this sense is also provided by the ear.
What is equilibrium?
300
The area monitored by a single sensory receptor
What is a receptive field?
400
Pain carried by myelinated neurons
What is fast (accute) pain?
400
Taste buds are located on these projections on the tongue.
What are papillae?
400
The area on the retina that produces the sharpest image.
What is the fovea?
400
The part of the ear that collects sound waves and protect the opening to the ear.
What is the auricle?
400
The simplest sensory receptors
What are free nerve endings?
500
The perception of pain coming from parts of the body that are not being stimulated.
What is referred pain?
500
The four primary taste sensations.
What are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter?
500
Fluid that fills the posterior of the eye
What is vitreous humor?
500
Three small bones in the middle ear
What are the auditory ossicles? (malleus, incus, stapes)
500
After wearing perfume all day, you can no longer smell it. This is an example of this phenomenon.
What is sensory adaptation?