Pigmented part of eye that that expands or contracts to adjust amount of light coming into eye.
What is the iris?
100
Another word for taste receptors.
What are taste buds?
100
Funnel-shaped external ear made of cartilage.
What is the pinna or auricle?
100
Tiny projections on your tongue. Your taste buds are found on them.
What are papillae?
200
Transparent part of eye that bend or refracts light.
What is the cornea
200
Gland associated with the eye that produces tears.
What is the lacrimal gland?
200
Medical or scientific term for the sense of smell.
What is olfaction?
200
Medical name for earwax.
What is cerumen?
200
Condition in which hair cells (sound receptors) are constantly stimulated.
What is tinnitis?
300
Innermost part of the eye that contains the sensory receptors.
What is the retina?
300
Thick gel located between the lens and retina that keeps the eyeball inflated.
What is vitrious humor?
300
True or False? Olfactory impulses are sent to the temporal lobe of the brain by way of the olfactory nerve.
What is true?
300
Thin membrane that separates the external and middle ear that vibrates in response to sound waves.
What is the tympanic membrane?
300
Two parts of the inner ear involved with balance.
What are the cochlea and the semi-circular canal?
400
Special neurons or receptors that detect color.
What are cones?
400
Spot where images focus on the retina.
What is the fovea centralis?
400
Most olfactory receptors are located on which part of the nasal cavity?
A. roof
B. bottom
C. right side
D. left side
What is the roof?
400
Inner ear structure involve in hearing.
What is the cochlea?
400
Type of equilibrium involved in determining where your head is relative to gravity.
What is static equilibrium?
500
Group of extrinsic eye muscles that encircle the eyeball.
What are the inferior and superior obliques?
500
Which correctly depicts the order through which light passes through the eye?
A. cornea, pupil, lens,retina
B. retina, pupil, lens, choroid
C. lens, cornea, pupil, retina
D. retina, pupil, choroid, lens
What is A: cornea, pupil, lens,retina
500
Structure in the nasal cavity in which most of the smell receptors are located.
What is the olfactory bulb?
500
Structure that connects the middle ear to the throat and equalizes pressure in the middle ear.
What is Eustachian tube?
500
Which is the correct order of structures involved in the transmission of sound?
A. stapes, round window, tympanic membrane
B. tympanic membrane, stapes, round window
C. round window, stapes, tympanic membrane
What is B?: tympanic membrane, stapes, round window