Receptors & Stimuli
These receptors detect pressure/vibration.
What are mechanoreceptors?
These are the basic tastes (excluding umami).
What are sweet, sour, salty, and bitter?
These are the names of the three ossicles.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
The medical term for balance.
These receptors detect low-light and shades of gray (no color).
What are rods?
These receptors detect pain.
What are nociceptors?
This is where smell receptors are located in the body.
What is the superior nasal cavity?
This is where hearing hair cells are located.
What is the cochlea?
This portion of the ear is responsible for encoding information about equilibrium.
What is the inner ear?
These receptors detect colors.
What are cones?
These receptors detect body position.
What are proprioceptors?
This newly identified taste refers to foods that taste savory.
What is umami?
This structure in the ear vibrates when struck by sound waves.
What is the tympanic membrane?
The structures in the ear responsible for detecting head position.
What are the otolith organs?
This is the area of the eye with the highest visual acuity.
What is the fovea?
These receptors detect temperature.
What are thermoreceptors?
This portion of the brain is responsible for associating smells with long-term memory and emotional responses.
What is the hypothalamus?
The auricle of the ear is sometimes also called this.
What is the pinna?
The structures in the ear responsible for detecting head movement.
What are the semicircular canals?
The term for inflammation of the eyelid.
What is blepharitis?
Capsaicin, an ingredient found in spicy peppers, feels "hot" to our body when eaten, due to activating these receptors, which detect 3 different forms of stimuli.
What are nociceptors? (Mechanical, chemical, and thermal)
These are the cranial nerves that allow tastes to be detected.
What are the facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus cranial nerves? (#s VII,, IX, and X)
This is a term for inner ear inflammation.
What is labyrinthitis?
The cranial nerve responsible for communicating balance to the brain.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
The term for double vision.
What is diplopia?