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ANT Chpt 12
Anatomy Chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| You enter a sauna and if feels awfully hot, but soon the temperature feels comfortably warm. What have you have experienced? | sensory adaptation |
| The lacrimal glands produce ___, which drain(s) into the ___. | tears; nasal cavity |
| The spiral organ (organ of Corti)? | contains hair cells |
| Equilibrium and the activities of muscles and joints are monitored by? | proprioceptors |
| In the retina, cone photoreceptors | provide higher acuity of vision that do rods |
| Which fo the following is NOT reuired for a sensation to occur? | the presence of slowly adapting receptors |
| The type of pain that can be precisely localized is | fast pain |
| Which of the following characteristics of taste is NOT true? | humans can recognize about 10 primary tastes |
| An ice skater is spinning rapidly on the ice. What is occurring in her inner ear? | the cristae of each semicircular duct are responding to changes in dynamic equilibrium |
| Kinesthesia is the ? | perception of body movements |
| Which of the following is NOT true about nociceptors? | they adapt very rapidly |
| The sense of smell? | is descirbed by all of the above characteristics |
| Transmission of vibrations (sound waves) from the tympanic membrane to the oval window is accomplished by? | the auditory ossicles |
| Which of the following structures refracts light rays entering the eye? | cornea |
| Your 45-year-old neighbor has recently begun to have difficulty reading the morning newspaper. You explain that this condition is known as ___ and is due to ___. | presbyopia, the loss of elasticity in the lens |
| Damage to cells in the fovea centralis would interfere with | visual acuity |
| Place the following events concerning the visual pathway in the correct order: | 3, 4, 6, 1, 2, 5 |
| Place the following events of the auditory pathway in the correct order: | 4, 2, 5, 1, 3 |
| focuses light rays onto the retina | lens |
| regulates the amount of light entering the eye | iris |
| contains aqueous humor | anterior cavity |
| contains blood vessels that help nourish the retina | choroid |
| hole in the middle of the iris | pupil |
| dense connective tissue that provides shape to the eye | sclera |
| contains photoreceptors | retina |
| color vision | cone photoreceptors |
| taste | gustatory receptor cell |
| smell | olfactory receptor |
| dynamic equilibrium | cristae |
| vision in dim light | rod photoreceptor |
| stretch in a muscle | muscle spindle |
| static equilibrium | maculae |
| pressure | pacinian corpuscle |
| touch | Meissner corpuscle |
| detection of pain | nociceptor |
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