Vision
These photoreceptors are responsible for color vision and bright light.
What are cones?
What is umami?
This structure in the inner ear detects sound vibrations.
What is the cochlea?
The spinal cord begins at this location.
What is the foramen magnum?
What is pain?
The structure that changes shape to focus light onto the retina.
What is the lens?
This cranial nerve is responsible for smell.
What is the olfactory nerve (CN I).
The three small bones in the middle ear are collectively called these.
Sensory information enters the spinal cord through this root.
What is the dorsal root?
A group of muscles supplied by a single spinal nerve root is called this.
What is a myotome?
The part of the retina that contains the highest concentration of photoreceptors, and therefore the best vision.
What is the fovea centralis?
This type of specialized sensory receptor is involved in both taste and smell.
What is a chemoreceptor?
The internal ear is made up of these two labyrinths.
What are the bony and membranous labyrinths?
This plexus supplies nerves to the lower limb and abdominal wall.
What is the lumbar plexus?
The cell bodies of spinal sensory neurons are located here.
What is the dorsal root ganglion?
This cranial nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve (CN II)?
The sensory cells responsible for detecting odorants are located in this region of the nasal cavity.
What is the olfactory epithelium?
This membrane vibrates in response to sound waves entering the ear.
What is the tympanic membrane (eardrum)?
This region of gray matter contains the cell bodies of motor neurons.
What is the ventral horn?
Principle functions of sensory neurons include transduction, amplification, transmission, and this.
What is integration?
These THREE cranial nerves are responsible for eye movement.
What are the oculomotor (CN III), trochlear (IV), and abducens (VI) nerves?
Taste receptors for the anterior two-thirds of the tongue travel through this cranial nerve.
These sensory receptors within the spiral organ detect mechanical sound vibrations.
What are the hair cells?
The spinal cord terminates at this cone-shaped structure.
What is the conus medullaris?
Receptors that respond to changes in stimuli intensity are called this.
What are phasic receptors?