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Ear Anatomy
Vision
Jumbalaya
100
This is the name given for the white part of the eyeball.
What is sclera?
100
This is the name of the nerve emerging from the posterior of the eyeball, attaching the eye to the brain.
What is the Optic nerve?
100
This is the scientific name for the external ear.
What is pinna?
100
These are the gray scale sensing cells of the retina.
What are rods?
100
This is the structure of the inner ear where sound waves are converted into nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
200
This is the middle layer of the eye, rich in blood vessels providing nutrients to the lens and retina.
What is choroid?
200
This is the name of the 'hole' in the middle of the iris where light first enters the eye.
What is the pupil?
200
This is the scientific name given to the eardrum.
What is tympanum or tympanic membrane?
200
These are the color sensing cells of the retina.
What are cones?
200
This is the color of the retina when observed through an opthalmoscope.
What is red?
300
This is the inner sensetive layer of the eye.
What is the retina?
300
This is the name of the water like substance between the lens and the cornea that provides nutrients to the lens and retina.
What is aqueous humor?
300
This is the structure connecting the middle ear to the throat, and responsible for many ear infections in children.
What is the eustachian tube?
300
This is the name where the medial (inside) fibers CROSS to the other side of the brain to form mixed fibers from both eyes.
What is the optic chiasm?
300
This is gel like substance behind the lens which gives the eyeball its shape.
What is vitreous humor?
400
This is the name of the colored part of the eye, which is actually a circular muscle.
What is iris?
400
This is the name of the muscle responsible for accomodation. It pulls on the lens, focusing the light onto the retina.
What is ciliary body (muscle)?
400
These are names of the 3 smallest bones of the bone located within the middle ear.
What is ossicles - malleus, incus, stapes; hammer, anvil, stirrup?
400
This is the lobe of the brain that processes and analyzes information from the eyes.
What is the occipital lobe?
400
This is the type of hearing loss that occurs from actual damage to the nerves.
What is sensory or sensorineural hearing loss?
500
This is the name given to the sclera layer in the front of the eye.
What is cornea?
500
This is the name given to the the circular muscle that opens and closes to adjustfor different light conditions.
What is iris?
500
These are the 3 structures of the inner ear.
What are the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular canals?
500
This is the name given to the nerve fibers in the brain after they synapse in the thalamus.
What is optic radiation?
500
This is the name of the test in which one shines a light in the subject's eye and looks for the pupil to constrict.
What is the pupillary reflex?