TYPES OF RECEPTORS
The receptor type that detects touch...
What are mechanoreceptors?
These touch receptors detect deep pressure and vibrations against the skin...
What are Pacinian?
In the lacrimal apparatus, tears are produced in the _____....
What is the lacrimal gland?
The parts of the eye that have the job of regulating or focusing light as it comes into the eye include the iris, pupil, and ___....
What is lens?
If you were looking at an individual eyeball during a dissection and it was flat, this likely happened...
A) The aqueous humor was extracted B) The cornea was removed
C) The suspensory ligaments were damaged D)The vitreous humor flowed out
What is answer D (the vitreous humor flowed out)?
The receptor type that detects temperature variances...
What are thermoreceptors?
These touch receptors detect deep pressure and stretching of the skin...
What are Ruffini's corpuscles?
After tears are produced in the lacrimal gland, they will travel across the ________________ towards the medial commissure before emptying into the nasolacrimal duct.
What is conjunctiva?
The part of the eye that defines our eye color is the ...
What is the iris?
This statement is NOT TRUE about taste buds...
A) Taste buds and papillae are the same thing
B) There are different types of taste buds
C) Children have more taste buds than adults which may explain why they are more sensitive to tastes and causes "picky eaters"
D) Taste buds contain chemoreceptors
What is answer A (taste buds and papillae are the same)?
The receptor type that detects pain...
Pain receptors [nociceptors/nocireceptors]?
These touch receptors would detect movement of hair...
What are hair follicles?
After tears travel across the conjunctiva towards the medial commissure before emptying into the _____...
What is the nasolacrimal duct?
The point on the retina where the sharpest image can be detected...
What is the Fovea centralis?
This is the correct order in which sound waves flow through the ear...
A) auricle, auditory canal, tympanic membrane, ossicles, cochlea
B) auditory canal, tympanic membrane, cochlea, ossicles, auricle
C) auditory canal, tympanic membrane, ossicles, auricle, cochlea
D) auricle, auditory canal, ossicles, tympanic membrane, cochlea
What is answer A (auricle, auditory canal, tympanic membrane, ossicles, cochlea)?
The receptor type that detects chemicals...
What are chemoreceptors?
These touch receptors would detect light pressure within the epidermis...
What are Merkel’s disks?
Lacrimal glands above the eye constantly release tears to ________ and moisten the eye...
What is cleanse?
Which of the following helps you see in low light?
A)Cones, pupil wide open B) Rods, pupil nearly closed
C) Cones, pupil nearly closed D)Rods, pupil wide open
What is answer D (rods/pupil wide open)?
This is an INCORRECT MATCH among the following...
A) Organ of Corti--->hearing
B) gustatory cell--->touch
C) maculae--->balance
D) olfactory receptor--->smell
What is ANSWER B (gustatory cell--->touch)?
The receptor type that detects light...
What are photoreceptors?
These touch receptors are encapsulated nerve endings found in hairless skin that detect light touch...
What are Meissner’s corpuscles?
Tears contain mucus, antibodies, and an antibacterial agent called ____....
What is lysozyme?
The type of photoreceptor found within the retina that is responsible for detecting color...
What are cones?
The organ that converts sound waves into impulses...
What is the Organ of Corti?