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Chapter 13: Sensory System

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Involves rods and cones, the retina and Cranial Nerves (CN II)   Sight  
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Involves the organ of corti and Cranial Nerves (CN VIII)   Hearing  
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Is the Olfactory Sense; uses chemorecptors   Smell  
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Uses mechanoreceptors. sensory information transmitted by the vestibular branch of Cranial Nerves (CN VIII)   Balance  
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Gustatory Sensation   Taste  
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From photoreceptors to the occipital lobe   Sight  
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From receptors to auditory cortex   Hearing  
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The layer of the eyeball that contains the photoreceptors   Retina  
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The colored muscle portion of the eye that determines the size of the pupil   Iris  
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The shape of the structure determined by the ciliary muscles; refracts light   Lens  
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Layer of the eyeball that provides the blood supply for the retina   Choroid  
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Secreted by the ciliary body and drained by the canal of schlemm   Aqueous humor  
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Gel-like substance in the posterior cavity; maintains the shape of the eye and helps hold the retina in place   Vitreous humor  
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Contains the radial and circular muscels; mydriasis and miosis   Iris  
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The window of the eye; avascular structure   Cornea  
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Includes the macula lutea   Retina  
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Inner lining of the lids "pink eye"   Conjunctiva  
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Contains the malleus, incus, and stapes   Middle ear  
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Connected to the pharynx by the eustachian tubes   Middle ear  
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Home of cerumen   External ear  
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Location of the organ of corti and Cranial Nerve (CN VIII)   Inner ear  
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Chochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibule   Inner ear  
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Endolymph and perilymph; mechanoreceptors   Inner ear  
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Separated from the middle ear by the tympanic membrane   External ear  
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Separated from the inner ear by the oval window   Middle ear  
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Bone conduction deafness   Middle ear  
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Nerve conduction deafness   Inner ear  
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The retina _________________   contains rods and cones  
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What is the consequence of diminished blood flow to the choroid?   the retina dies  
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A drug or effect that is described as mydriatic ______________   dilates pupil  
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Which of the following does not describe the middle ear?   it is the location of the organ corti  
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The organ of corti_______________________   is the receptor for hearing  
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Touch, pressure, pain, and temperature are _____________________   classified as general senses  
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Cranial Nerves III, IV, and VI____________________   innervate the extrinsic eye muscles  
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Which of the following is not a sense?   Lacrimation  
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Which of the following best describes theses structures: superior oblique, inferior oblique, superior rectus, inferior rectus, medial rectus and lateral rectus?   Extrinsic eye muscles  
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Which of the following is least related to the eyelids?   optic nerve  
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Light waves pass through the _____, the avascular extension of the sclera. The light goes through the opening in the iris called___and then through a refracting structure called the ________.   cornea, pupil, lens  
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In daylight, the light waves focus on the ____the area of most acute vision because of the high numbers of ___, the waves are scattered along the periphery of the retina, stimulating the ___ the photoreceptors for color vision.   fovea centralis (macula lutea), cones  
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In dim light,the light waves are scattered along the periphery of the retina, stimulating the _, the photoreceptors for night vision. Action potential(nerve impulses) are formed by the stimulated photorecptors located in the inner layer of the eye, called   rods, retina  
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The nerve impulses travel along the _____ nerve to the ______ lobe of the cerebrum.   optic, occipital  
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Sound waves travel through the external auditory canal and bump into the ___ causing the "drum" to vibrate. The vibration is transmitted to the three tiny ossicles called ___, ____, and _____.   tympanic membrane, mallus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrups)  
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The ___ vibrates against the oval window, causing the fluid within the inner ear to move. The inner ear fluid, called ___, bends the hairlike projections of the receptors, called ___.   cochlear, endolymph, and organ of corti  
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When the hairs are bent, action potentials are fired; the nerve impulses travel the ____ branch of the CN VIII to the ____ love of the cerebrum.   cochlear and temporal  
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