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Another name for senses

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Afferent

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Way that the nervous system receives information about external environment

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Exteroception

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Way the nervous system receives information about the internal environment

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Interoception

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Position and movement of the body

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Proprioception

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What is the conscious perception of sensory stimuli

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Sensation

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Modalities that arise primarily from innervation of body surfaces and musculoskeletal elements

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Somatosensation

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Scientific name of taste

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Gustation

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Scientific name for smell

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Olfaction

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Scientific name of sight

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Vision

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Scientific name of hearing

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Audition

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Scientific name of equilibrium

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Vestibular sensation

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The 5 special senses

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Taste, smell, sight, hearing, equilibrium

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Transduction

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Way the nervous system changes environmental energy into electrical activity

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5 general types of receptors

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Mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, nociceptors, photoreceptors, chemoreceptor

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Mechanoreceptor

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Respond to physical deformation (stretch) and proprioception

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Thermoreceptor

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Respond to hold and cold

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Nociceptor

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Respond to stimuli that are injurious to tissue

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Photoreceptors

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Light receptors

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Chemoreceptors

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Responds to chemical changes

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Encapsulated/nonencapsulated

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Receptors can be described based on structure

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Encapsulated receptors

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Touch sensations

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Nonencapsulated receptors

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Painful stimuli

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Portion of the ear that is visible on the outside of the head

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Pinna

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Elastic cartilage that provides the shape of the pinna

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Auricular cartilage

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Extension of the pinna
External acoustic canal
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Canal that is lined with modified skin that contains hairs & sebaceous and ceruminous glands
External acoustic canal
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What do the sebaceous and ceruminous glands secrete
Cerumen
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Function of cerumen
Protects the ear canal
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Cartilage that forms the external acoustic canal
Annular cartilage
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Middle ear space
Tympanic cavity
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What is the tympanic cavity contained with
Temporal bone
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The three auditory ossicles
Malleus, incus, stapes
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Malleus shape
Hammer
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Incus shape
Anvil
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Stapes shape
Stirrup
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What is transmitted from the tympanic membrane, through the ossicles, to the oval window
Vibrations
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Two muscles within the middle ear
Tensor tympani and stapedius
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Function of the tensor tympani and stapedius
Dampening vibrations of loud noises
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The inner ear is completely within the
Temporal bone
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What is the inner ear
Membranous labyrinth
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What does the inner ear detect
Sound and acceleration of the head
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Primary features of the membranous labyrinth
Utricle & saccule, semicircular ducts, cochlear duct
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Utricle and saccule
The two enlargements of the inner ear
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Semicircular ducts
The three loops attached to the utricle of the inner ear
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Cochlear duct
Spiral of the inner ear
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What are the utricle & saccule, semicircular ducts, and the cochlear duct filled with
Endolymph
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The inner ear’s two parts
Cochlear and vestibular apparatus
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The three tunics of the eyeball
Fibrous, vascular, nervous
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Which tunic is outermost and an example
Fibrous , cornea
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Which tunic is the middle and one example
Vascular, iris
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Which tunic is the innermost and an example
Nervous, retina
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Allows light to pass easily and is the most powerful refracting layer of the eye
Cornea
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Five factors that makes the cornea transparent
Lack of vascular elements, lack of pigment, dehydration of collagenous tissue, smooth optical surface, laminar pattern of collagen
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Which animal has more cornea compared to sclera
Cats
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Transparent proteinaceous biconvex disco, between the posterior and vitreous chamber
Lens
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Accommodation
Focusing on near objects
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Which animal has the most accommodation
Cats
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The only part normally visible of living animals
Iris
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Controls the amount of light that enters the posterior part of the eye by changing the size of the pupil
Iris
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Pupil shape of domestic herbivores and pigs
Horizontal
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Pupil shape of cats
Vertical and elliptical
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Iris shape of dogs
Circular
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Two types of humors of the eye
Aqueous and vitreous
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Aqueous humor functions
Provides nutrition to the cornea and lens, removes waste products, maintains pressure
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Glaucoma
When the aqueous humor can’t drain anymore, is reassured into venous circulation, causing an increase in intraocular pressure
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Deepest layer of the eyeball
Retina
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The retina contains two specialized receptor cells
Rods and cones
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Which photoreceptor is sensitive to light
Rods
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Which photoreceptor is sensitive to color
Cones
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Portion of the retina that can be viewed with a opthalmoscope
Ocular fundus
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To see better in the dark, many animals have increased _____
Concentration of rhodopsin
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Animals have the ability to increase what to help them see at night
Increase the diameter of the pupil
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Tapetum
Colorful reflective layer of animals that allows light to be reflected back on the retina
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Function of tapetum
Enhances vision in low light

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