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100
The name of the indention in the skull that protects each of your eyeballs.
What is the orbit?
100
This part of the brain is responsible for memory, personality, and decision making.
What is the frontal lobe?
100
This sense is supposedly 80% reliant on the sense of smell.
What is taste?
100
This is the lobe of the brain responsible for the sense of taste.
What is the parietal lobe?
100
This region of the ear has the part that collects sound known as the pinna.
What is outer ear?
200
The outermost layer of the eye that is made primarily of a tough connective tissue.
What is the sclera?
200
Part of a sensory pathway, these structures receive signals from the environment.
What are receptors?
200
This is the lobe of the cerebrum that is responsible for processing the sense of smell.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
The name of the tiny bumps or "buds" that house our taste receptors.
What are papillae?
200
This structure vibrates when sound waves strikes it, then rattles tiny bones that conduct sound.
What is the tympanic membrane? (ear drum)
300
These photoreceptors detect contrast and primarily serve vision in low light conditions
What are rods?
300
In a reflex arc, these structures carry signals AWAY from the CNS.
What are efferent neurons? (motor)
300
The number of different chemicals your olfactory receptors can detect.
What is 10,000?
300
This supposed fifth taste receptor is sensitive to the "savory" quality and flavor of foods.
What is umami?
300
This snail-shaped structure is the primary organ of hearing.
What is the cochlea?
400
The middle layer of the eye that includes the iris and is very vascular, supplying it with oxygen and nutrients.
What is the choroid?
400
One of the five characteristics of sensations, this occurs when you begin to no longer perceive a constant stimulation.
What is adaptation?
400
The sense of smell is closely associated with this structure that is responsible for emotions and drives along with long-term memory formation.
What is the amygdala?
400
These receptors are found on each of the receptors on your tongue.
What are all of them?
400
These structures vibrate and perceive sound by sending signals down the auditory nerve to the brain.
What are hair cells?
500
The name of the spot where the optic nerves cross on their way back towards the vision centers of the brain.
What is the optic chiasma?
500
This "sixth sense" allows you to detect body position, even though you are not visibly aware of it.
What is proprioreception?
500
The olfactory receptors extend down through this structure and into the sinus cavity.
What is the cribiform plate?
500
Like the olfactory receptors, your taste receptors ALSO have these structures on them.
What are "taste hairs"? (microvilli)
500
This type of hearing loss is the result of damage to the auditory nerve or other sound-perceiving structures.
What is sensorineural?