Senses

Question 1

Special senses

Answer 1

Stems from receptors associated with sensory organs such as eyes and ears

Question 2

Chemoreceptor

Answer 2

Stimulated by binding or certain chemicals

Question 3

Pain receptor

Answer 3

Sensory nerve ending that transmits impulses interpreted as pain

Question 4

Proprioreceptor

Answer 4

Nerve ending that senses changes in muscle tension

Question 5

Photoreceptor

Answer 5

Nerve ending sensitive to light energy

Question 6

Meissners corpuscle

Answer 6

Receptors in dermal papillae

Question 7

Perception

Answer 7

Mental awareness of sensory stimulation

Question 8

Sensory adaptation

Answer 8

Sensory receptors becoming unresponsive along CNS pathways leading to sensory regions of cerebral cortex after constant repeated stimulation

Question 9

Visceroreceptive sense

Answer 9

Detecting changes in viscera

Question 10

Hypoxia

Answer 10

Deficiency of oxygen in tissues

Question 11

Serotonin

Answer 11

Vasoconstrictor that blood platelets release when blood vessels break controlling bleeding
Neurotransmitter

Question 12

Muscle spindle

Answer 12

Modified skeletal muscle fiber that responds to changes in muscle length

Question 13

Stretch reflex

Answer 13

Muscle contraction in response to stretching of muscle

Question 14

Mechanoreceptor

Answer 14

Sensitive to mechanical stimulation

Changes in pressure or tension

Question 15

Baroreceptor

Answer 15

Sensory receptor in blood vessel wall stimulated by changes in pressure

Question 16

Pacinian corpuscle

Answer 16

Deeper receptors in dermis

Question 17

Sensation

Answer 17

Feeling resulting from brains interpretation of sensory nerve impulses

Question 18

Projection

Answer 18

Brain causes sensation to seem to come from the region of the body being stimulated

Question 19

Exteroreceptive senses

Answer 19

Associated with changes at body surface

Question 20

Ischemia

Answer 20

Deficiency of blood in a body part

Question 21

Referred pain

Answer 21

Pain feels as if originating from part other than site being stimulated

Question 22

Enkephalins

Answer 22

Neuropeptide in brain and spinal cord that inhibits pain impulses

Question 23

Golgi tendon organs

Answer 23

Sensory receptors in tendons close to muscle attachments involved in reflexes to maintain posture

Question 24

Olfactory receptor cells

Answer 24

Receptors that detect smell

Question 25

Taste buds

Answer 25

Organ containing receptors associated with taste

Question 26

Tympanic membrane

Answer 26

Thin membrane covers auditory canal and separates outer ear from middle ear Ear drum

Question 27

Auditory ossicle

Answer 27

Bone of middle ear

Question 28

Oval window

Answer 28

Opening between the stapes and inner ear

Question 29

Auditory tube

Answer 29

Tube that connects middle ear cavity to pharynx | Eustachian

Question 30

Labyrinth

Answer 30

System of connecting tubes in inner ear including cochlea, vestibule, semicircular canals

Question 31

Semicircular canals

Answer 31

Tubular structure in inner ear that contains receptors providing that sense of dynamic equilibrium

Question 32

Papillae

Answer 32

Tiny projections

Question 33

Auricle

Answer 33

Ear like structures

Question 34

Ceruminous glands

Answer 34

Make ear wax

Question 35

Cochlea

Answer 35

Part of inner ear that has hearing receptors

Question 36

Free nerve endings

Answer 36

Simplest receptors common in epithelial tissues | Itching sensation

Question 37

Nociceptors

Answer 37

Pain receptors

Question 38

Acute pain fibers

Answer 38

Thin myelinated nerve fibers

Question 39

Chronic pain fibers

Answer 39

Thin Unmyelinated nerve fibers

Question 40

Olfactory bulbs

Answer 40

Structures that lie on either side of the crista Galli of ethmoid bone

Question 41

Umami

Answer 41

Savory, meaty, pungent

Question 42

Pinna

Answer 42

Auricle

Question 43

Middle ear/ tympanic cavity

Answer 43

Air filled space in temporal bone that separates the outer and inner ears

Question 44

External acoustic meatus

Answer 44

S shaped tube leads inwards in ear

Question 45

Malleus

Answer 45

Maintains conical shape | Vibrates incus

Question 46

Incus

Answer 46

Passes movement to stapes

Question 47

Stapes

Answer 47

Moves fluid within the inner ear

Question 48

Tympanic reflex

Answer 48

Muscles contract after loud sound | Bridge of ossicles become rigid

Question 49

Eustachian tube

Answer 49

Connects middle ear to throat

Question 50

General senses

Answer 50

Involves receptors widely distributed throughout body