Senses

Question 1

General senses

Answer 1

senses that have receptors all over the body

Question 2

Somatic senses

Answer 2

provide information about the body and environment

Question 3

Visceral senses

Answer 3

provide information about the organs

Question 4

Special senses

Answer 4

sense that have specialized structures and are in specific places in the body

Question 5

Mechanoreceptors

Answer 5

respond to mechanical stimuli

Question 6

Chemoreceptors

Answer 6

respond to chemicals

Question 7

Photoreceptors

Answer 7

respond to light

Question 8

Nociceptors

Answer 8

respond to pain

Question 9

General senses

Answer 9

touch, pressure, pain,temperature, vibration, itch, and proprioception

Question 10

Free nerve endings

Answer 10

receptors for the general senses

Question 11

Touch receptors

Answer 11

free nerve endings enclosed by capsules

Question 12

Merkel disks

Answer 12

superficial nerve endings that detect light touch and pressure

Question 13

hair follicle receptors

Answer 13

body hair receptors that respond to light touch

Question 14

Meissner corpuscles

Answer 14

touch recpetors

Question 15

Ruffini corpuscles

Answer 15

deeper tactile receptors and continous pressure

Question 16

Pacinian corpuscles

Answer 16

deepest touch receptors of the tendons and joints also vibrations and body possition

Question 17

Righting relfex

Answer 17

keeps our body upright

Question 18

Superficial pain

Answer 18

receptors are localized

Question 19

Deep pain

Answer 19

not localized receptors

Question 20

Referred pain

Answer 20

pain that is felt in a different part of the body then where it is actually coming from

Question 21

Olfactory anatomy

Answer 21

Olfactory neuron dendrites have cilia that odorants can attach to. A signal is sent from the neuron to the olfactory bulb then to the brain

Question 22

Neural pathway for olfaction

Answer 22

Olfactory axons > olfactory bulb > interneurons > olfactory tracts > olfactory cortex in temporal and frontal lobes

Question 23

Prolonged odorant exposure effects

Answer 23

Feedback loop stops sending signal

Question 24

Taste buds

Answer 24

structures on the tongue’s papillae, pharynx, palate, and epiglottis that contain sensory receptors for tastes

Question 25

Types of taste

Answer 25

sour, salty, bitter, sweet and umami

Question 26

Taste bud anatomy

Answer 26

Taste pairs extend from the taste pore and connect to a taste cell. When activated the taste cell sends a signal down a nerve to the thalamus then the temporal lobe

Question 27

Accessory Structures of the eye purpose

Answer 27

lubricate, protect and move eye

Question 28

Eye accessory structures

Answer 28

eyebrows, eyelids, conjunctiva, lacrimal apparatus, and extrinsic eye muscles

Question 29

Conjunctiva

Answer 29

mucous membrane covering the inner eyelids and the surface of the eye

Question 30

Lacrimal apparatus

Answer 30

a gland in the the corner of the eye that produces tears

Question 31

nasolacrimal duct

Answer 31

duct that leads from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity

Question 32

Fibrous tunic

Answer 32

the outer layer of the eye made of sclera that attaches the eye to the muscles and the cornea that allows light in.