General Senses
These general receptors are sensitive to pressure and help sense movement or the deforming of their capsule.
What are mechanoreceptors?
This includes the outer coat of the eye and the cornea.
What is the sclera?
External ear components
What are the auricle or pinna and the external auditory canal?
Taste buds
What are the chemoreceptors on the tongue also known as papillae?
The bony labyrinth is filled with this liquid substance.
What is perilymph?
These receptors help sense the position of body parts or changes in muscle length or tension.
What are proprioreceptors?
This is the pigmented vascular layer of the eye. The front part of this layer comprises the iris and pupil.
What is the Choroid?
The middle ear group and individual components.
What are the ossicles - Malleus, Incus and Stapes?
What are sweet, sour, bitter, salty along with metallic and Umami tastes?
The endolymph is found there.
What is the membranous labyrinth?
Pain, temperature & crude touch
What are the senses linked to free nerve endings?
This contains the rods and cones.
What is the retina?
Otitis media
What is inflammation of the middle ear?
The lining of the nasal cavity is the location of these receptors.
What are the olfactory receptors?
The receptors for balance are found in this structure and are called this.
What is the semicircular canals and the cristae ampullares
These corpuscles sense touch and pressure
What are bulbous or Ruffini corpuscles?
Three common diseases of the eye.
What are macular degeneration, glaucoma & cataracts?
Two categories of hearing problems.
What are conduction problems and nerve impairments?
The tracts of a smell to the brain.
What is olfactory cilia capture the chemical and transmit to the olfactory bulb and olfactory nerve tracts. The olfactory nerves go to the Thalmic center of the brain where the nerve impulse is interpreted?
These specialized hair cells bend in response to movement of endolymph and are located in this structure.
What is the organ of corti?
These are 2 specific types of proprioceptors.
What are Golgi tendon receptors and muscle spindles?
The 2 main types and locations of the eye "fluids."
What are the aqueous humor in front of the lens and the vitreous humor in the chamber behind the lens?
Two names for the nerve formed at the junction of the Vestibular nerve and the Cochlear nerve?
What is Cranial nerve Vlll and the Acoustic nerve?
The name and number of the cranial nerves involved with gustatory impulses.
What are numbers Vll and lX also known as Facial and Glossopharyngeal?
The path of sound waves through the ear.
What is sound enters the external acoustic canal and travels to the tympanic membrane. The vibration caused passes through the malleus, incus and stapes to the oval window. It then passes through the cochlear duct and the organ of corti to the cochlear nerve. This nerve then joins with the vestibular nerve to form the acoustic nerve which goes to the brain.