Sense Organ

Question 1

5 general senses

Answer 1

Pain
touch
temperature
visceral sensation
proprioception

Question 2

What type of stimulus and what is sensed Pain

Answer 2

Stimulus: Mechanical, chemical, Thermal
Sensed: Intense stimuli of any type

Question 3

What type of stimulus and what is sensed touch

Answer 3

Stimulus: Mechanical
Sensed: Touch and pressure

Question 4

What type of stimulus and what is sensed temperature

Answer 4

Stimulus: Thermal
Sensed: Heat/Cold

Question 5

What type of stimulus and what is sensed Visceral sensation

Answer 5

Stimulus: Chemical and Mechanical
Sensed: Hunger, thirst, fullness

Question 6

What type of stimulus and what is sensed proprioception

Answer 6

Stimulus: Mechanical
Sensed: movement and body position

Question 7

Superficial Temperature

Answer 7

Located in the skin and detect upward and downward changes in skin temperature

Question 8

Central temperature

Answer 8

Keep tract of the core interior temperature of the body by monitoring the temp of the blood. located in the hypothalamus,

Question 9

Pain process

Answer 9

nocieption

Question 10

First step in pain process

Answer 10

Transduction

Question 11

Transduction

Answer 11

conversion of painful stimuli to a nerve impulse. Occurs at the sensory nerve ending

Question 12

Second step in pain process

Answer 12

Transmission

Question 13

Third step in pain process

Answer 13

Modulation

Question 14

Fourth step in pain process

Answer 14

Perception

Question 15

transmission is

Answer 15

nerve impulse up the sensory nerve fibers to the spinal cord

Question 16

Modulation

Answer 16

(changing) of the sensory nerve impulse can occur in the spinal cord and can influence the info the brain receives

Question 17

Perception

Answer 17

The painful impulses of several areas of the brain.

Question 18

5 special sense

Answer 18

Taste, smell, vision, equilibrium, and Hearing

Question 19

2 structures are responsible for equilbirum

Answer 19

semicirular canals and vestiblie

Question 20

Conjunctival sac is

Answer 20

useful place to deposit ophthalmic medications and potential space moistened by years

Question 21

structures responsible for hearing are housed in this bone

Answer 21

temporal

Question 22

structure is thought to enhance vision in dim light in animals

Answer 22

Tapetum lucidum

Question 23

Scelera

Answer 23

outer fibrous of the eye

Question 24

Aqueous humor

Answer 24

fluid with a watery consistey