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What is the term used to describe sensory impulses being sent at a decreasing rate until receptors fail to sense impulses until there is a change in strength of the stimulus.
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Sensory Adaptation
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What are receptors sensitive to changes in chemical concentrations?
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Chemoreceptors
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What are pain recepters, they detect tissue damage?
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Nociceptors
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What are receptors that respond to temperature differences?
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Thermoreceptors
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What are receptors that respond to changes in pressure or movement?
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Mechanoreceptors
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What are receptors in the eyes that respond to light energy, electromagnetic stimuli?
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Photoreceptors
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How many senses are there? And what are the two categories?
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10 Senses!
5 General Senses 5 Special Senses |
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What are the five senses that are distributed generally throughout the body. They transmit sensory info via peripheral and automomic nerve fibers to CNS.
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General Senses
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What are the five sense that are located in the head. They have complex receptors and are often involved in clinical disease.
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Special Senses
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What are the five general senses?
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Visceral Sensations
Touch Temperature Pain Proprioception |
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What are the five special senses?
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Taste
Smell Hearing Equilibrium Vision |
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What sense involves hunger, thirst, hollow-organ fullness?
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Visceral Sensations
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What sense involves touch and pressure?
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Touch
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What sense involves hot and cold?
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Temperature
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What sense is related to intense stimuli of any type?
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Pain
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What sense is related to body position and movement?
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Proprioception
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What sense involves tastes?
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Taste
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What sense involves odors?
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Smell
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What sense involves sounds?
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Hearing
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What sense involves balance and head positon?
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Equilibrium
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What sense involves light?
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Vision
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What are 4 processes that contribute to nociception? (Pain)
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Transduction
Transmission Modulation Perception |
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Foliate papillae on the tongue are sensitive to what type of tastes?
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Sour
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Circumvallate papillae on the tongue are sensitive to what type of taste?
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Sour/Bitter
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What are the five basic tastes?
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Salt Taste
Sour Taste Sweet Taste Bitter Taste Umami Taste |
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Acid and and H+ protons cause what type of taste?
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Sour
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What is the taste of certain amino acids called?
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Umami taste
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What is the proper term for the sense of smell?
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Olfactory sense.
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Smell and _____ are intimately linked?
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memory!
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What is the roof of each nostril, a region called?
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Nasal mucosa
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The nasal mucosa contains the?
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Olfactory epithelium covered in mucus.
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What is the condition in which the sense of smell is reduced or lost entirely?
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Anosmia
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The auditory sense converts vibrations of air molecules into nerve impulses to be interpreted by the brain. This sense is considered to be?
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A mechanical sense
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What are the three sections of the ear?
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External Ear
Middle Ear Inner Ear |
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What section of the ear is designed to funnel sound wave vibrations and direct them toward the eardrum?
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External part!
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Which membrane vibrates at the same frequency as the sound waves, called sympathic vibration?
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Tympanic membrane
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What middle ear is coposed of what three parts?
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Tympanic cavity
Ossicles Eustachian Tube |
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The middle ear contains three bones or ossicles which transmit and amplify sound vibrations. What are they?
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Malleus (hammer)
Incus (Anvil) Stapes (Stirrup) |
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What is part of the middle ear and equalizes pressure on two sides of the tympanic membrane?
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The eustachian tube. (auditory tube)
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Within the cochlea is a bony labyrinth filled with fluid called?
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Perilymph
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Equilibrium in the ear related to utricle and saccule. Gelatinous material holding otoliths that contact hair cells. What type of equilibrium is this?
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Static Equilibrium
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What type of equilibrium is related to semicircular canals that detect motion of the head.
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Dynamic Equilibrium
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What is the first and most powerful lense of the optical system of the eye?
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Cornea
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What are the whites of the eye called?
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Sclera
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What is the colored part of the eye?
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Iris
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Which type of photoreceptor cellse are sensitive to light and see shades of gray?
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Rods
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Which type of photoreceptor cellse are sensitive to color and see details?
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Cones
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Where to dall the nerve fibers on the inside surface of the retina converge?
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Optic Disc!
Also the Blind Spot of the eye! |
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What two chambers in the eye are filled with aqueous humor?
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Anterior and Posterior chambers!
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What chamber in the eye is filled with vitreous humor?
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Vitreous chamber!
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Which glands are the primary source of tears?
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Lacrimal glands
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What duct is related to crying, which causes your nose to run?
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Nasolacrimal Duct
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What two small openings drain tears from the eye?
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Lacrimal puncta
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What are the 4 straight eye muscles?
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Dorsal
Ventral Medial Lateral |
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What are the 2 oblique eye muscles?
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Dorsal
Ventral |