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Senses Chptr 10

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Mechanoreceptors   Touch & pressure are from free nerve endings deform or displace tissues  
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Meissner's Corpuscles   Light touch pressure sensor  
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Pacini Corpuscles   Heavy touch pressure sensor  
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Proprioception   Sense of position or orientation of the body, Rate of movement one body part to another  
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Thermorceptors   Located immediately under the skin, most on the lips, least on the broad surfaces body trunk  
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More cold or hot receptors   10x more cold receptors than hot  
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location of most thermoreceptors   on the lips  
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Nociceptors   Pain free nerve endings stimulated by tissue damage, skin & tissues of the internal organs, they don't adapt & will continue to make you feel pain even when stimulus stops  
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Gustatory   Sense of taste a chemoreceptor, Thalmus controlled to parietal lobe  
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parts of Gustatory (taste)   Taste Buds, Papillae, taste pore, taste hairs (microvilli)  
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2 types of Gustatory nerves   facial nerve and glossapharyngeal nerve  
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Name general senses   Touch, Pressure, Temperature, Pain, Proprioception (position/orientation)  
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Chemoreceptor   Chemical (chemical changes in taste & smell)  
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Mechanoreceptors   pressure (bending/deforming cell/tissue) in joints, hearing, equilibrium)  
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nociceptors   pain receptor (tissue damage)  
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thermoreptors   temperature (heat & cold)  
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Photoreceptors   light energy (vision)  
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receptor detector (chain/steps)   Stimulus-receptor dectection-CNS to interpret  
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Odors   pleasant/unpleasant, unnoticed after a time, can result in nausea  
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cold adaptation   cold/hot abruptly then the receptors adapt (ex cold water in pool)  
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Headache   referred surfaces of the head, or menignes & blood vessels, sinuses, eyes  
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Bitter Taste   highest degree of sensitivity, reject it, poisons and toxins  
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Blinking   eye blinks 6-30 times/min, stimulates lacrimal glands to secrete tears to lubricate across the eye  
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Corneal transplant   readily accessible, easy to remove, avascular (no bleeding)less rejection, long term success (one of the 1st organs xplant)  
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Pupils   Dialate during problem solving, or if subj is appealing, reflexes reflecting interest or emotional state, Restrict if boring repulsive  
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Detaached Retina   sensory portion breaks away, Trauma or eye disorder, resulting in distored vision eventual blindness, reattach via laser Sx  
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Color Blindness   absence or def in cones, common red/green, inherited > males  
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Ruptured Eardrum   perforated by shock waves from explosion, scuba, trauma, acute middle ear infections, acute pain, noise, hearing impairment  
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Motion Sickness   nausea/vomiting, resulting repetitive/ excessive stimulation of equilibrium receptors some are more suseptible than others  
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name 4 different taste receptors and where they are located on the tongue   Salty (tip of tongue) Sweet (just behind tip of tongue), Sour (sides of middle of tongue) Bitter (back of tongue left to right)  
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Bony Socket (bony orbit)does what for the eye?   Protects it  
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Accessory Structures do what for the eye?   protect and move the eyes  
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Eye brow function   keeps perspiration out of the eye, it can cause irritation  
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Eyelids function   open and close the eye, keep foreign objects out  
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Conjuctiva   keeps the eye from drying out, thin mucous membrane that lines the eyelid,covers most of the eye except the cornea  
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Muscles associated with the eyelid   Orbicularis Oculi, (closes the eye) & Lavator Palpebrae Superioris (opens the eye)  
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Eyelash function   helps trap foreign particicles  
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Sebaceous glands   associated with eyelashes) secrete oily fluid that lubricates the region (inflamation is a stye)  
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Lacrimal Gland does what   produces tears  
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Sclera is what   whites of the eyes (= 5/6 of the eye)  
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Cornea   "window of the eye" transparent layer outside of the eye  
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Choroid   vascular brown pigmented layer posterior of eye  
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Iris   colored part of the eye  
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pupil   doughnut shaped diapharagm (lets in/out light) dialates and constricts  
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Retina   "visual part of the eye" innermost layer of the eye, posterior, contains rods & cones  
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Optic Nerve   Visual impulses to the brain  
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Rods   low light vision (night vision)  
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Cones   color vision  
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Type of sight chart most used   Snellen  
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Color Chart   Ishihara  
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OD   Right Eye  
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OS   Left Eye  
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OU   both eyes  
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Aqueous Humor   liquid maintains shape of eye & provides nutrients (front of eye shape, eye pressure)  
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Vitreous Humor   presses retina to the wall of the eye, supports internal shape, provides nutrients (eyeball shape)  
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Refraction   the bending of light rays  
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accomodation   adjustment to the vision of the eye  
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Auditory   sense of hearing  
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AD   Right Ear  
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AS   Left Ear  
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AU   both ears  
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External ear also known as   Auricle or Pinna  
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Fleshy part of ear   Auricle or Pinna  
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Otitus Externa   Swimmer's Ear  
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Tinitus   ringing of the ears  
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Otinius Media   middle ear infection  
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Tympanic Membrane   think membrane middle ear, vibrates with stimulus  
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3 bones inside ear   Malleus, Staples, Incus  
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Eustachian Tube   aka Auditory tube; connects ears to throat  
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Bony Labryrinth - itis   infection of the inner ear  
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Cochlea   snail like coil inner ear (bony labyrinth) functions in hearing  
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cerumen   ear wax  
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Meniere's disease   lifelong chronic inner ear disease, recurring attachks, dizziness, loss, tinnitis  
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Tinnitus   ringing or buzzing in the ears  
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Vertigo   Feeling of dizziness, loss of balance, room spinning  
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Blepharitis   inflation of the edges of the eyelid  
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Glaucoma   increased pressure in the eye, if untreated blindness  
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Macular Degeneration   breakdown of cells in macula lutea, central vision (older people)  
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Nyctalopia   night blindness  
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Otosclerosis   formation of bony tissue around oval window immobilizing stapes (ear) results in deafness  
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Presbycusis   impairment of hearing from aging  
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Presbyopia   impairment of vision from againg  
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Sensorineural deafness   noise related ear damage to the cochlea (pathway to cortex cerebelum)  
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Tympanitis   inflammation of the tympanic membrane  
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Quiz: The _______ is the white portoion of the eye   SCLERA (watch the spelling)  
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Quiz: The _______ is the colored part of the eye.   IRIS  
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Quiz: Medical term for middle ear infection   Otitinus Media  
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Quiz: Medical term for ear wax   Cerumen  
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Quiz: This gland produces tears   Lacrimal  
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Quiz: Medical term for Swimmer's Ear   Otitus Externa  
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Quiz: The external is called the   Auricle or Pinna  
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Quiz: Stimulated by heavy pressure   Pacini's corpuscle  
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Quiz: The sense of sight can be classified as:   Photoreceptor  
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Quiz: OD   Right Eye  
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Quiz: How many feet should a patient stand away from the snellen chart when testing for visual acuity?   20 feet  
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Quiz: The sense of smell can be classified as   chemoreceptiors  
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Quiz: Important in sensing light discrimination touch stimuli   Meissner corpuscle  
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Quiz: Receptors for color vision   cones  
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Quiz: Fluid that helps maintain shape of anterior part of th eeye   Aqueous humor  
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Quiz: Olefactory means   smell  
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Quiz: Medication used to treat conjunctivitis   Eyrthromycin  
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Quiz: Regulates amount of light that enters the eye   Pupil  
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Quiz: Which of the following taste buds are located in the back of the tongue?   Bitter  
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Quiz: Connects the middle ear to the throat   Eustachian tube  
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Quiz: The cochlea is located in the   Inner Ear  
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Quiz: Transmits sound to the cochlea   Ossicles  
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Quiz: Location of the ossicles   Middle ear  
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Quiz: Disease of the eye characterized by increased intraocular pressue, which can lead to blindness   Glaucoma  
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Quiz: The eardrum is also called the   Tympanic Membrane  
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Quiz: The sense of balance occurs in the   Semicircular canals & the vestibule  
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Quiz:Ringing in the ears is called   Tinnitus  
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Quiz: Medication used for dizziness   Meclizine  
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Bonus Quiz Question: name the 3 occicles   Malleus, Incus, Stapes  
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