Somatic Senses
Receptors
The Eye
Tunics
Eye Functions
100

When walking into room, a person collides into the furniture, not sensing the chair's distance

Proprioception

100

Receptors activated when smelling baked cookies

Chemoreceptors

100

Means tears

Lacrimal

100

Outer tunic

Fibrous

100

Provides UV protection to retina

Iris

200

Smokers are not bothered by the smell of cigarettes because they get accustomed to the odor

Sensory adaptation

200
Receptor that activates when seeing the green shirt

Photoreceptors

200

If you touch your eye, the fluid in contact with your finger is

Conjunctiva

200

This tunic contains blood vessels.

Vascular tunic

200

Muscle that contracts to accommodates the eye to see near objects

Ciliary body

300

When learning to drive a car, the brain maps how much to turn the steering wheel without hitting the curb

Sensory projection

300

The taste buds react to the hot peppers

Gustatory receptors

300

Conjunctivitis is called this.

Pink eye

300

Tunic that includes the retina with lots of nerves

Nervous tunic

300

Allows you to see objects in dim light

Rods

400

Includes pain, touch, temperature

Somatic senses

400

The loud music moves hair cells in the ears transmitting sound waves.

Mechanoreceptors

400

Canaliculi

drains tears

400

The window of the eye

Cornea

400

Allows you to see the colors red, green, blue

Cones

500

Includes feeling dizzy from ear disturbances, sight, and smell

Special Senses

500

Your face feels the hot from the campfire

Thermoreceptors

500

Sac that collects tears

lacrimal sac

500

The white part of the eye

Sclera

500

Captures photons of light

Retina