Sensory - Sight and Touch

Question 1

Types of Mechanoreceptors

Answer 1

Pacinian Corpuscles, Merkel’s Light disks (tactile disks), and Messiner’s Corpuscles

Question 2

Pain Receptors

Answer 2

Nociceptors - free or “naked” dendrites in the skin

Question 3

Chemoreceptors

Answer 3

Gustatory (Taste), and Olfaction (smell)

Question 4

Thermoreceptors

Answer 4

End bulb of Krause (cold), And Ruffini’s end organ (heat)

Question 5

Function of Proprioreceptors

Answer 5

Sense of body’s position in space

Question 6

Function of Pacinian Corpuscles

Answer 6

pressure/sustained touch

Question 7

Function of Merkel’s Light disks (tactile disks), and Messiner’s Corpuscles

Answer 7

Discriminative/Light touch

Question 8

Sclera

Answer 8

White of the eye

Question 9

Cornea

Answer 9

Transparent part of the sclera

Question 10

Choroid

Answer 10

Night shin pigment on inner eye layers

Question 11

Pupil

Answer 11

hole in the iris

Question 12

iris

Answer 12

Pigmented outer layer of eye

Question 13

lens

Answer 13

focuses light. Located behind cornea

Question 14

Ciliary body

Answer 14

Produces clear watery fluid that fills up space between the cornea and lens

Question 15

aqueous humor

Answer 15

clear fluid made by ciliary bodies.

Question 16

Vitreous Humor

Answer 16

jelly like substance

Question 17

Retina

Answer 17

Innermost layer contains rods and cons

Question 18

rods

Answer 18

black and white

Question 19

Cones

Answer 19

color vision; most numerous near fovea. Less common in humans than other animals

Question 20

fovea

Answer 20

center of visual field where humans see sharpest and have the most cones

Question 21

blind spot

Answer 21

where optic nerve leaves eye