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biomed chapters 14 and 15, sensory organs

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Biomed   Chapters 14 and 15  
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Pairs of spinal nerves   31  
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Number of cranial nerves   12  
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Spinal nerves   connected to the spinal cord, no special names, but are numbered, 8 cervical nerve pairs, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 1 coccygeal  
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Cauda equine   Latin for horse’s tail, lower end of the spinal cord with the attached spinal nerves  
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Ventral root   attaches to spinal cord, carry to muscles, autonomic  
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Dorsal root   recognized by ganglion, contain cell bodies of the sensory neurons  
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Mixed nerves   spinal n nerves contain both motor and sensory fibers  
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Ramus   a large branch of nerves formed when the spinal nerves emerge from the cavity  
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Dorsal ramus   supplies somatic motor and sensory fibers to several smaller nerves which innervate eth muscles and skin of the posterior surface of the head, neck, and trunk  
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Ventral ramus   sympathetic chain, some o the autonomic fibers synapse with autonomic neurons that continue on to autonomic effectors by way of splanchnic nerves  
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Splanchic nerves   allow autonomic fibers to continue ton to autonomic effectors  
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Sympathetic rami   two thin rami formed by splitting of autonomic neurons rejoining autonomic fibers  
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Plexus   a complex subdivided networks of nerves, reduces the number of nerves needed to supply each body part  
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4 plexuses   cervical plexus, brachial plexus, lumbar plexus, and sacral plexus  
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Cervical plexus   in neck, ventral rami of the first four cervical spinal nerves, innervate muscles and skin on neck, shoulders, and part of the head  
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Phrenic nerve   excites the cervical plexus, innervates the diaphragm  
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Brachial plexus   in shoulder, ventral rami of spinal nerves, beneath collarbone towards upper arm, innervate lower part of shoulder and entire arm  
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Lumbar plexus   near psoas muscle, femoral nerve emerges from here, supplies thigh and leg  
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Sacral plexus   in pelvic cavity, combined with lumbar plexus because of proximity to be lumbosacral plexus, tibial and peroneal nerves, forms sciatic nerve, all the skin of the leg, thigh muscles, foot muscles, let muscles  
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Coccygel plexus   innervate the floor of the pelvic cavity and some surrounding areas  
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Dermatome   skin surfaced are supplied by sensoryfibers of a given spinal nerve  
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Myotome   a skeletal muscle or group of muscles that receives motor axons from a given spinal nerve, some overlap  
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Cranial nerves   connect to the undersurface of the brain, mostly on the brainstem, made of axon bundles  
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Mixed cranial nerves   axons of sensory and motor neurons  
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Sensory cranial nerves   sensory axons only  
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Motor cranial nerves   mainly motor axons, contain a small number of proprioceptive fibers  
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Prprioceptive fibers   sensory that are in motor cranial nerves, carry information regarding tension  
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Olfactory nerve   dendrites and cell bodies lie in nasal mucosa up along superior concha, pierce each cribiformplate and terminate in olfactory bulbs, turn to olfactory tracts  
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Optic nerve   from retina to brain, unite at optic chiasma and continue into optic tracts hen entering the brain, terminate in thalamus at lateral geniculate nucleus  
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Oculomotor nerve   move eye muscles, focusing and light  
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Trochlear nerve   midbrain into oblique muscles of eye  
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Trigeminal nerve   three branches, carry impulses from skin and teeth of the head  
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Abducens nerve   originate in pons, abducts the eye  
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Facial nerve   salivary and tear glands  
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Vestibulocochlear nerve   vestibular nerve and cochlear nerve, both sensory  
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Glossopharyngeal nerve   nerves to tongue, pharynx, and blood pressure (carotid sinus)  
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Vagus nerve   sensory and motor, supplies most of gut organs as well as lung and heart, controls swallowing and speaking, heart rate  
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Accessory nerve   motor nerve, go to pharynx and larynx  
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Hypoglossal nerve   motor nerve  
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Final motor pathway   somatic nervous system, each neuron stretches from CNS to muscle  
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Anterior horn neuron   the last neuron in a final common path  
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Reflex   action that results from a nerve impulse passing over a reflex arc  
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Cranial reflex   if the reflex arc is in the brain  
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Somatic reflexes   contraction of skeletal muscles, anterior horn neurons or lower motor neurons produce somatic reflexes  
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Autonomic (visceral) reflexes   contractions of smooth or cardiac muscles or secretion of glands  
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Babinski reflex   Stimulate the outer foot and the big tow comes up  
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Corneal reflex   blinking in response to touch cornea  
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Abdominal reflex   drawing in of the abdominal wall when sides are touched  
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Sympathetic preganglionic neurons   begin in spinal cord, dendrites and cell bodies in lateral gray horns of thoracic and lumbar segments  
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White ramus   very myelinated, at lumbar vertebrae  
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Three paths of preganglionic fiber   synapse with a post gangloinic, send ascending or descending branches in other chain ganglia, not synapse at all  
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Sympathetic postganglionic neurons   in sympathetic chain ganglia, gray ramus, un myelinated  
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Parasympathetic post ganglionic neurons   in parasympathetic ganglia, near autonomic effectors  
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Parasympathetic preganglionic neurons, in brainstem, cranial and pelvic nerves    
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Norepinephrine   released by adrenergic fibers  
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Acetylcholine   released by cholinergic fibers  
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Norepinephrine   affects visceral effectors by binding to adrenergic receptors, alpha or beta receptors,  
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Alpha receptors   causes smooth muscle to cause blood vessel to constrict  
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Beta receptors   cause blood vessels to dilate  
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How to stop norepinephreine   taken back up by synaptic knobs and broken down by monoamine oxidase, remaining molecules are broken down by catechol-O-methyl transferase  
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Acetylcholine can bond to   nicotinic or muscarinic receptors, broken down by acetylcholinesterase  
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Receptor potential   a potential that develops in the receptor’s membrane, which is graded to the strength of the stimulus  
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Sensation   interpretation of the brain of stimulus  
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Adaptation   the magnitude of the receptor potential decrease over a period in response to a continuous stimulus  
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General sense organs   microscopic receptors widely distributed throughout the body in the skin, mucosa, connective tissues, muscles, tendons, joints, and viscera  
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General sense organs produce   somatic sense, not evenly distributed  
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Three classes of receptors   exorecedptors, visceroceptors, proprioceptors  
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Exteroceptors   located on or near the body surface and respond most frequently to stimuli that arise external to the body itself, detect pressure, pain, touch and temp  
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Cutaneous receptors   also called exteroceptors  
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Visceroceptors   located internally within the organs and provide info about the internal environment, activated by pressure, stretching, and chemical changes, control hunger and thirst  
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Proprioceptors   type of visceroceptors  
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Mechanoreceptors   activated when they are deformed or change position, such as when stretched or touched  
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Chemoreceptors   activated in the changing concentration of chemicals, smell and taste  
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Thermoreceptors   changes in temperature  
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Nociceptors   activated by pain/tissue damage  
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Photoreceptors   only in eye, light stimuli  
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Free nerve endings   most common receptor, are exteroceptors and visceroceptors  
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Nociceptor   free nerve ending, end in dendritic knobs, brain has none  
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Krause’s end bulbs and ruffini’s corpuscles   thermoreceptors, free nerve endings  
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Two types of free nerve endings   A (Acute) and B (chronic) A=sharp intense pain, B=less intense but persistant pain  
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Root hair plexuses   web of free nerve endings that surround hair follicles and detect hair movement  
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Merkel discs   free nerve endings that discriminate light touch in a specific location  
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Pacinican corpuscles   crude touch, harder to deform  
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Encapsulated nerve endings   have a tissue capsule that surrounds their dendritic end, deformed, a tactile corpuscle  
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Mucocutaneous corpuslces   Krause’s end bulbs, discriminate touch and vibration, meissner’s corpuscle  
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Encapsulated endings   meissner corpuscle  
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Ruffini’s corpuscles   variants of meissner’s corpuscles, deep in dermis, crude persistent touch, ability to grasp and object for long periods of time and still be able to sense its presence  
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Pacinian corpuscles   mechano receptors deep in the dermis, hands and feet as well as joint capsules, deep pressure, high frequency vibrations, and stretch  
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Stretch receptors   associated with muscles and tendons and are proprioceptors  
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Two stretch receptors   Golgi tendon receptors, muscle spindles, both operate to provide the body with info concerning muscle length and the strength of muscle contraction  
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Muscle spindle   5-10 intrafusal fibers in a capsule, can’t contract, lies in between extrafusal fibers, cause muscles to contract when are too flacid  
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Gamma motor neurons   stimulates the intrfusal fibers on the muscle spindle fibers to contract  
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Alpha motor neurons   stimulate the regular muscle fibers to contract  
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Stretch reflex   shortens a muscle or muscle group to aid in posture or positioning  
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Golgi tendon organs   proprioceptors, between muscle tissue and tendon, type Ib nerve fibers in afferent nerves, stimulated by excessive muscle contraction and cause the muscle to relax  
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Golgi tendon reflex   protects muscles from tearing by making them relax  
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Special sense   receptors grouped closely together or located in specialized organs, smell, taste, hearing, equilibrium, and vision  
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Olfactory epithelium   made of epithelial support cells, basal cells, and specialized bipolar olfactory receptor neurons  
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Olfactory receptor neurons   have olfactory cilia which touch the surface of the olfactor yepithelim lining the surface of the nasal cavity, they are chemoreceptors  
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Basal cells   replace the chemo receptors in the olfactory epithelium  
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Cilia function in nose   olfactory cilia help to “mix” the mucus and increases its efficiency as a solvent  
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Location of olfactory epithelium   most superior portion of nasal cavity which is why a sniff is required for smelling, because most air just goes down the nasal passageway without touching them  
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Granule cells   inhibit action potentials when there is a persistent smell  
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Taste buds   sense organs that respond to taste  
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Gustatory stimuli   taste  
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Papillae   elevated projections on the tongue that contain taste buds  
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Where taste buds are located   fungiform circumvallate, and foliate papillae  
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Taste buds are stimulated by   testants (chemicals) dissolved in saliva  
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Gustatory cells   cells on each taste but (50-125) which are surrounded by a supportive epithelial cell capsule, gustatory hairs extend from each cell and project into the taste pore  
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G protein receptor site   when gustatory hairs bind to testants (taste-producing chemicals), which bind to the G protein receptor sites and it determines how fast the receptor potential is generated  
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Ion channels   testants bind to them along with the G protein receptor sites to determine how fast the receptor potential is generated  
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Other tastes   metallic and umami  
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Tastes   sour is H+, salty is Na Cl, bitter and sweet are stimulation of G protein receptors  
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Nerves involved in taste   the facial nerve and glossopharyngeal, vagus only a minor role  
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Parts of the ear   external, middle, and inner  
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Part of external ear   pinna/auricle and the external auditory meatus (ear canal)  
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Ear canal   moves, inward, foreward, and down  
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Tympanic membrane   eardrum  
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Middle ear   tympanic cavity, contains three auditory ossicles  
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Auditory ossicles   malleus, incus, stapes  
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Oval window   opening where the stapes fits in  
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Round window   an opening in the middle ear  
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Eustachian tube   Made of bone and partly cartilage and fibrous tissue, lined with mucosa, into throat behind nose  
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Labrynth   name for inner ear, made of bony labyrinth and membranous labrynth  
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Bony labrynth   made of vestibule, cochlea, and semicircular canals  
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Membranous labrynth   made of utricle and saccule, cochlear duct, and membranous semicircular canals inside the bony ones  
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Endolymph   the clear and potassium-rich fluid that fills the membranous labrynth, allows for very quick refractory periods  
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Perilymph   fluid similar to cerebrospinal fluid, surrounds the membranous labrynth  
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Modiolus   what the cochlea wraps around  
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Cochlear duct   only part of the internal ear concerned with hearing, upper part is scala vestibule, a nd lower section is scala tympani  
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Vestibular membrane   roof of the cochlear duct  
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Basilar membrane   floor of the choclear duct  
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Organ of Corti   hearing sense organ, lies on basilar membrane topped with tectorial membrane, its axons form the cochlear nerve  
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Tectorial membrane   on top of organ of corti  
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Volume   determined by amplitude of the sound waves  
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Pitch   the frequency of the sound waves, number per unit time  
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Basilar membrane width   not the same which causes bulges at different places depending on frequency, lower cause the thicker parts to vibrate, and higher cause the thin ones to vibrate, the higher the upward bulge, the louder the perceived sound that stimulates more cilia  
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Pathway of sound waves   enter in pinna, strike tympanic membrane, moving the malleus, incus, and stapes, stapes moves against oval window, a and pressure is exerted on the perilymph in the cochlea, which starts a ripple to endolymph to basilar membrane  
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Vestibule   the central section of the bony labrynth, semicircular canals  
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Equilibrium   sense of balance, in vestibule and semicircular canals  
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Static equilibrium   utricle and saccule function, sense the position of the head relative to gravity and sense of acceleration  
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Dynamic equilibrium   semicircular canals, maintains balance when the head or body itself is rotated or suddenly moved  
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Macula   strip of epithelium in utricle and saccule, movements of macula provide info related to head position or acceleration, action potentials are generated by movement of the hair cells  
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Otoliths   ear stones, protein and calcium carbonate, in macula, change in position of head produces a change in pressure on the otolith-weighted matrix which stimulates the hair cells, evokes righting reflexes (muscular responses restore body to normal position)  
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Crista ampullaris   dynamic equilibrium, located in ampulla of each semicircular canal, sensory epithelium, made of many hair embedded in cupula  
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Cupula   gelatinous cap where the crista are located, a float that moves with flow of endolymph in semicircular canals, bends the hairs embedded in it producing an action potential, moves in opposite direction of endolymph  
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Amount of eye in orbit   5/6  
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Three layers of eyeballs   sclera, choroid, and retina  
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Cornea   anterior portion of the sclera, lies over iris, transparent, no blood vessels  
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Canal of Schlemm   in anterior part of the sclera at the junction with the cornia, ring-shaped venous sinus  
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Choiroid   middle portion of eye, blood vessels and pigment, made ofiris, ciliary body, and suspensory ligament  
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Ciliary body   formed by a thickening of the choroid and fits like a color betweenthe anterior margin of the retina and the posterior margin of the iris, fold in it a ciliary processes  
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Suspensory ligaments   blend with the elastic capsule of the lens and suspend it in place  
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Ciliary muscle   lies in anterior part of ciliary body where cones, the less numerous of the two, are most densely concentrated  
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Iris   colored part of the eye, made of circular and radial smooth muscle fibers to make a doughnut structure, hole in middle I s pupil  
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Retina   incomplete innermost coat of eyeball, no anterior portion, three layers of neurons  
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Nerons of retina   (named in order in which they conduct impulses) photoreceptror neurons, bipolar neurons, and ganglion neurons  
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Dendrites of the photoreceptor neurons   called rods and cones depending on their shape  
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Fovea centralis   where cones, the least numerous of the two, are most densely concentrated, becoming less dense as it reaches the outer eye, macula lutea, yellow area on it  
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Optic disk   circular area in the posterior part of the eyeball where all the axons of ganglion neurons extend to, contains perforations that lead to the optic nerve, also called blind spot  
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Blind spot   no rods or cones, only nerve fibers, where nerves exit to from optic nerve  
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Anterior cavity   eye, two subdivisions known as the anterior and posterior chambers, anterior is in front of the lens, filled with aqueous humor  
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Posterior cavity of eye   larger than anterior, posterior to the lens, contains vitreous humor , soft gelatin, helps maintain interocular pressure  
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Aqueous humor   forms from blood in capillaries in ciliary body, watery  
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Extrinsic eye muscles   skeletal muscles that attach to the outside of the eyeball and to the bones of the orbit that move them voluntarily, 4 strait and 2 oblique  
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Intrinsic eye muscles   smooth, involuntary, iris and ciliary muscles (iris =pupil size, ciliary=lens shape)  
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Accessory structures of eye   eyebrows, lashes, lids, and lacrimal apparatus  
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Eye is the only organ   that voluntary and involuntary muscles are found  
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Eyebrows and lashes   protection against entering of foreign objects in eyes, and prevent direct sunlight  
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Palpebrae   eyelids, voluntary muscle and skin, connective tissue at free nd of lit called tarsal plate  
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Conjunctiva   mucous membrane that lines each eyelid  
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Conjunctivitis   pink eye  
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Palpebral fissure   opening between the eyelids  
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Canthus   the angle in the corner of the eyelid  
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Lacrimal apparatus   structures that secrete tears and train them from surface of eye, lacrimal glands, ducts, sacs, and nasolacrimal ducts  
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Lacrimal glands   small almond, in frontal bone, drain tears onto conjunctiva  
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Lacrimal canals   small chanenels that empty into lacrimal sacs, openings in the canals are punctae, which can be seen as dots on the inner canthus  
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Lacrimal sacs   located in groove of lacrimal bone  
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Nasolacrimal ducts   small tubes that extend from lacrimal secintor inferior meatus of the nose  
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Processes of light on retina   refraction of light, accommodation of the lens, constriction of the pupil, and convergance of the eyes to get it on the retina  
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Refraction   bending of the light rays by cornea, lens, aqueous, and vitreous humor  
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Accommodation   changes the lens depending on the distance of the object, increase in its curvature to achieve greater refraction  
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Contraction of ciliary muscles   contraction pulls choroid layer closer ot the lens which loosens the tension of the suspensory ligaments, allowing lens to bulge  
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Vision vs lens shape   near vision the ciliary muscle is contracted, lens is bulging, for distance it is relaxed. Continual use of eyes for near work produces eye strain  
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Presbyopia   as people grow older lenses lose their elasticity and they lose their ability to see thing nearer  
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Constriction of the pupil   prevents divergent rays from entering the eye through the periphery of the cornea and lens, near reflex=constriction of pupil for near vision  
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Convergence of eyes   movement of the two eyeballs inward so that their visual axes come together at the object viewed, the nearer the object he greater angle of convergance needed  
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Photopigments   light sensitive pigmented compounds found in the outer area of both types of photoreceptors near the pigmented retina, can be broken down in to opsin and retinal  
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Rhodopsin   photopigment found in rods, light sensitive, breaks down into opsin and retinal compounds  
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Cones   three types of cones are present and each contains a different photo pigment, red green and blue cones, function to produce vision in bright light  
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Two types of hearing problems   conduction impairment and nerve impairment  
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Tinnitus   ringing in the ear  
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Otosclerosis   inherited bone disorder which impairs conduction by causing structural irregularities in the stapes  
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Otitis   ear infection  
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Presbycusis   hearing loss due to nerve impairment, aging  
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Myopia   nearsigntedness, concave lenses  
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Satigmatism   irreugularity in the curvature of the cornea or lens  
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Cataracts   cloudy spots on the eye’s lens  
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Diabetic retinopothay   diabetes causes small hemorrhages in retinal blood vessels that disrupt the oxygen supply to photo receptors, the eye responds by building abnormal vessals that block vision  
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Glaucoma   excessive intraocular pressure by abnormal accumulation of aqueous humor, degeneration of the retina due to decrease blood flow  
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Hyperopia   farsightedness, corrected by convex lenses  
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