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Smell
Vision
Hearing
Touch
Taste
100
Postage Stamp
What is the size of chemoreceptors in the nose.
100
A place where optic nerve has no eye vision
What is the blind spot?
100
most visible part of the outer ear and what most people are referring to when they use the word “ear.”
What is the pinna?
100
Somatic sensory system
What “system” is responsible for sense of touch?
100
-Salty -Sour -Bitter -Sweet
What is the four basic categories of taste?
200
are capable of mitotic cell division to form olfactory receptor neurons when functionally mature
What is the purpose of basal cells found in the olfactory epithelium?
200
Cloudiness in the eye
What is a cataract?
200
It vibrates when sound waves enter the ear canal
What does the ear drum do?
200
Intimate = handshake, hug, kiss Healing = massage, acupuncture
What are the different types of touch?
200
Texture, Temperature, Pain, Sensitivity
What is three other factors that contribute to the food-tasting experience.
300
No more than 40% of these are functional in humans — the rest are pseudogenes — which may help to explain why dogs are better at detecting odors than we are.)
What is a possible explanation as to why dogs are better at detecting odors than humans?
300
Cones are required for bright lighting and are cones shaped. Rods are required to see dim light and are rod shaped
What is difference between rods and cones?
300
Tympanic membrane
What is another name for the ear drum?
300
The bottom layer-Dermis
What layer of skin does touch originate?
300
-Facial Nerve -Glossopharyngeal Nerve -Vagus Nerve
What is 3 cranial nerves that are used to taste things.
400
enable sperm to swim towards certain chemicals (a positive chemotaxis)
What is functions of smell?
400
It allows you to focus on things various distances
What is the purpose of the lens?
400
tensor tympani and stapedius
What is three muscles found in the ear.
400
Shoulder
Where is the least sensitive area on your body?
400
-Circumvallate Papillae -Fungiform Papillae -Foliate Papillae -Foriform Papillae
What is the 3 different types of papillae.
500
Identify food, mates, predators, and provide both sensual pleasure (flowers), as well as warnings of danger (spoiled food, chemical dangers)
What is bromhidrosis and what causes it?
500
Rod Vision
What is the system that works with the eye to recognize the object being viewed?
500
It is located in the cochlear duct and is the main hearing organ. Hair cells inside detect sound and send info through the cochlear nerve
What is the organ of corti?
500
Touch is found all over
How is the sense of touch different than that of the other senses?
500
Foliate Papillae
What is the papillae with parallel low ridges separated by furrows