Sight
Taste
Hearing
Smell
Touch
Diagrams
100
Receptor cells in the eye that detect black and white
What are rods?
100
What is the term for taste buds
Papillae
100
What is the outer ear called
Auricle or Pinna
100
Type of receptor that detects chemicals in the air and food
Chemoreceptor
100
Type of receptor near the external environment (skin)
Exteroceptor
100
What are 9 and 10 pointing to?
9- semicircular canals
10- stapes
200
Sight gets relayed to what part of the brain?
Occipital Lobe
200
Humans can distinguish about five of these qualities – what are they
sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami
200
Name the 3 bones in the middle ear
Malleus, Incus, Stapes
200
What is the scientific term for smell
Olfactory
200
Type of pain that originates from the skin and usually stops once the stimulus stops.
Acute pain
200
What is B and D pointing to?
B- lens
D- pupil
300
The sharpest part of your vision is located where?
Fovea Centralis or macula
300
Savory taste
Umami
300
These are fluid filled and give a sense of equilibrium
Semicircular Canals
300
The loss of the sense of smell.
What is Anosmia?
300
Type of pain that occurs in the tissues of organs like heart and lungs
Visceral pain
300
What is 5 and 6 pointing to?
5- round window
6- Eustachian tube
400
Ligaments that connect from the ciliary body to the lens
Zonules of Zin or Ciliary Ligaments
400
Scientific term for taste
Gustatory
400
Sound waves strike this in the ear causing it to vibrate.
What is the tympanic membrane?
400
The receptor cells in the nose relay to what before it gets detected in the brain
Olfactory bulb
400
Type of receptor that detects pain and releases chemicals when tissues get damaged.
Nociceptors
400
What is C and E pointing to?
C- cornea
E- iris
500
Disorder where there is pressure in the vitreous humor that can damage the optic nerve
Glaucoma
500
Reason for losing your sense of taste
Infections, aging, allergies
500
Disorder that is caused by age related hearing loss
Presbycusis
500
Why do smells trigger memories?
Olfactory tract is near the Limbic system or amygdala that house our memories.
500
These receptors perceive sensations related to the temperature of objects the skin feels.
What are thermoreceptors?
500
What is A and F pointing to?
A- vitreous humor
F- sclera