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anatomy chapter 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| accommodation | an adaptation or adjustment especially of a bodily part (as an organ) |
| chemoreceptors | a sense organ (as a taste bud) responding to chemical stimuli |
| cochlea | a division of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear coiled into the form of a snail shell and consisting of a spiral canal in the petrous part of the temporal bone in which lies a smaller membranous spiral passage that communicates with the saccule at the b |
| cornea | the transparent part of the coat of the eyeball that covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior |
| equilibrium | |
| eustachian tube | |
| extrinsic eye muscles | |
| general senses | |
| hearing | |
| intrinsic eye muscles | |
| lacrimal apparatus | |
| mechanoreceptors | |
| nociceptors | |
| olfactory receptors | |
| optic receptors | |
| ossicles | |
| pain | |
| perception | |
| photoreceptors | |
| pressure | |
| proprioception | |
| referred pain | |
| refraction | |
| retina | |
| sclera | |
| semicircular canals | |
| sensation | |
| smell | |
| special senses | |
| taste | |
| temperature | |
| thermoreceptors | |
| touch | |
| vestibule | |
| vision | |
| visual accessory organs | |
| visual pathway |