Eye muscles
Middle/inner ear structures
Receptor cells and sensory tissues
Miscellaneous vision questions
Miscellaneous hearing & equilibrium questions
100
These eye muscles are named for their slanted shaped.
What are the superior oblique and inferior oblique muscles?
100
The name of this group of bones.
Ossicles.
100
This is the gland that produces tears.
What is the lacrimal gland?
100
This is the name of the colored portion of the eye.
What is the iris?
100
This is the fluid found between protective bony labyrinth and the sensory membranous labyrinth.
What is perilymph fluid?
200
This muscles contractions control the diameter of the lens.
What is the ciliary muscle?
200
Name of this inner ear structure.
What is the cochlea?
200
This liquid's main function is to nourish the eye.
What is the aqueous humor?
200
These receptors are responsible for colored vision.
What are cones?
200
These ring-like structures on the left side of the image are partly responsible for our sense of equilibrium.
Semicircular canals.
300
The trochlea supplies support for this eye muscle.
What is the superior oblique?
300
This is the portion of the ear commonly called the "eardrum."
What is the tympanic membrane?
300
This eye cell is responsible for vision at low light levels.
What are rods?
300
The technical term for our "blind spot".
Optic disc.
300
This is the technical term for the ear canal.
What is the external auditory meatus?
400
This muscle contracts in response to bright light.
Radial muscle(s) of the iris.
400
This bone of the inner ear is commonly called the "hammer."
What is the malleus?
400
This is the patch of cells that contain the pit called the fovea centralis.
What is the macula lutea?
400
This is the chamber located between the cornea and the iris.
What is the anterior chamber?
400
These canals are responsible for maintaining equilibrium.
What are the semicircle canals?
500
This eye muscle is innervate by the abducens.
What is the lateral rectus?
500
This portion of the ear equalizes pressure between the middle ear and the environment.
What is the Eustachian tube?
500
The name of the "hairs" that bend to facilitate hearing and equilibrium.
Stereocilia.
500
This is the orbital bone structure that forms the tear drainage system.
What is the inferior meatus and turbinate?
500
This is the only duct filled with endolymph?
What is the Scala media?