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Ability to perceive stimuli

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Sense

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Detect environmental changes and trigger nerve impulses that travel on sensory pathways into the central nervous system?

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Sensory receptor

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Type of general senses?

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Somatic

Visceral

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Sense that provides information about the body and environment?

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Somatic

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Type of sense that provides information about internal organs, primarily involving pain and pressure?

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Visceral

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Type of sense that have receptors over a large part of the body?

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General Senses

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Type of specialized sense in structures and localized to specific parts?

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Special Senses

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Receptor that detects movement?

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Mechanoreceptors

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Receptors that detect temperature change?

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Thermoreceptors

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Receptors that detect chemical change?

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Chemoreceptors

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Receptors that detect change in light?

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Photoreceptors

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Originates in a region that is not the source of pain?

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Referred pain

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Responsible for sense of smell?

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Olfactory Organs

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Responsible for sense of taste?

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Taste Buds

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Responsible for sense of hearing?

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Ears

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Responsible for sense of balance/equilibrium?

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Ears

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Responsible for sense of sight/vision?

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Eyes

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Alternative name for sense of smell?

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Olfaction

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Where are the olfactory receptors located?

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Nasal Cavity

Hard Palate

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How many smells can humans detect?

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About 10,000

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Sensory taste structure?

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Taste Buds

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Three parts of the ear?

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Outer ear
Inner ear

Middle ear

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Parts of the outer eat?

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  • Auricle
  • External Auditory Meatus
  • Eardrum
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Alternative name for auricle?

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Pinna

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Alternative name for eardrum?
Tympanic Membrane
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Fleshy part on the outside of the eat which helps collect sound waves?
Auricle
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S shaped tube that leads to ear drum?
External auditory meatus
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Length of external acoustic meatus?
2.5cm
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Thin membrane that separates external and middle ear?
Eardrum
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Enumerate the three auditory ossicles?
* Malleus * Incus * Stapes
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Alternative name for malleus?
Hammer
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Alternative name for Incus?
Anvil
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Alternative name for Stapes?
Stirrup
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Alternative name for auditory tube?
Eustachian tube
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Connects each middle ear to the throat?
Auditory tube
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Conducts air between tympanic cavity and the outside of the body?
Auditory tube
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Complex system of communicating chambers and tubes?
Labyrinth
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Two parts of the labyrinth 
* Bony Labyrinth | * Membranous Labyrinth
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Bony chamber that houses membranous labyrinth?
Bony Labyrinth
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Alternative name for bony labyrinth?
Osseous labyrinth
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3 Regions of the bony labyrinth?
Cochlea Vestibule Semicircular Canals
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Part that contains the hearing receptors?
Organ of Corti
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Two types of equilibrium?
* Static Equilibrium | * Dynamic Equilibrium
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Involved in evaluating the position of the head maintaining stability and posture when the head and body are still?
Static equilibrium
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Involved in evaluating the changes in direction of the head?
Dynamic equilibrium
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Associated part for static equilibrium?
Vestibule
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Associated part for dynamic equilibrium?
Semicircular canal
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Accessory organs of the eyes?
Eyelids Lacrimal Apparatus Eyelashes Eyebrows Extrinsic eye muscles
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Located within the orbit or orbital cavity?
Eye
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Diameter of eye?
2.5 cm
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3 Layers of eye?
* Outer Fibrous Layer * Middle Vascular Layer * Inner Nervous Layer
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Outermost layer of the eye?
Fibrous Tunic
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White part of the eye?
Sclera
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Transparent structure that covers the iris and pupil which allows light to enter and focus?
Cornea
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Two parts of the fibrous tunic of the eye?
* Sclera | * Cornea
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Middle layer of the eyeball?
Vascular Tunic
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Alternative name for the eyes outer fibrous layer
Fibrous Tunic
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Alternative name for the eyes middle vascular layer?
Vascular tunic
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The vascular tunic consists of?
* Choroid Coat * Iris * Ciliary Body
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Vascularized part of the vascular tunic which contains melanocytes?
Choroid coat
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Coloured portion of the eye that regulates the amount entering the vitreous chamber through the pupil?
Iris
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Hole at the centre of the iris?
Pupil
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Forms the internal ring around the front of the eye which produces a clear fluid that fills the front of the eye. 
Ciliary body
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Inner most layer of the eyeball?
Nervous Tunic
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Inner most layer of the eye?
Retina
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Contains visual receptors in the eye?
Retina
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Alternative name for visual receptors?
Photoreceptors
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Yellowish spot at the central region of the retina responsible for 20/20 vision?
Macula Lutea
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Small depression at the center of the macula lutea which produces the sharpest vision?
Fovea Centralis
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Located medial to the fovea centralis which lacks photoreceptors, also where optic nerve exits eyeball?
Optic Disc
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Alternative name for optic discs?
Blind spots
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Helps refract incoming light and focus it onto retina, most radiosensitive part of the eye?
Lens
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Opacity of eye ball lens may lead to?
Waterfall
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Two types of visual receptors?
Rods and Cones
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Long thin projections that provide black and white vision?
Rods
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Short blunt projections that provide color vision and sharp images?
Cones
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Allows to see in dim light?
Scotopic

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