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chapter 7
| audi/o | hearing |
| functions of the nervous system | communication, motor, control and sensation |
| major organ and structure of the nervous system | brain, spinal cord, and nerves |
| aur/o | ear |
| cochle/o | coclea |
| corne/o | cornea |
| lacrim/o | tears |
| lith/o | stone |
| ocul/o | eye |
| ophthalm/O | eye |
| opt/o | eye , vison |
| ot/o | ear |
| presby/o | old age |
| propri/o | own |
| retin/o | retina |
| scler/o | sclera |
| tympan/o | eardum |
| detect heat and cold | thermoreceptors |
| detect touch, vibration stretch and pressure | mechanoreptors |
| pain receptors that detect tissues injury or potential tissue injury | noclceptors |
| in what layer of the skin are most of the general sense receptors located? | dermis |
| an area in which a single neuron is responsible for detecting a stimulus. | receptive field |
| term for taste | Gustation |
| how many taste buds are in the human mouth | 10,000 |
| the surface of the tongue is covered with bumps called | lingual paillae |
| taste cells have | banana shaped and have hairlike microvilli taste hair |
| stem cells in the taste bud that develop to replace taste cells as they die | basal cells |
| a meaty taste derived from some amino acids binding to taste hairs. | umami |
| the five primary tatse | salt, sweet,sour,bitter, umami |
| ____________is the result of a sensory signal sent to the brain | sensation |
| pertaining to the sense of smell. | olfactory |
| external ear flap composed of elastic cartilage | pinna |
| leads from an opening | |
| audi/o | hearing |
| functions of the nervous system | communication, motor, control and sensation |
| major organ and structure of the nervous system | brain, spinal cord, and nerves |
| aur/o | ear |
| cochle/o | coclea |
| corne/o | cornea |
| lacrim/o | tears |
| lith/o | stone |
| ocul/o | eye |
| ophthalm/O | eye |
| opt/o | eye , vison |
| ot/o | ear |
| presby/o | old age |
| propri/o | own |
| retin/o | retina |
| scler/o | sclera |
| tympan/o | eardum |
| detect heat and cold | thermoreceptors |
| detect touch, vibration stretch and pressure | mechanoreptors |
| pain receptors that detect tissues injury or potential tissue injury | noclceptors |
| in what layer of the skin are most of the general sense receptors located? | dermis |
| an area in which a single neuron is responsible for detecting a stimulus. | receptive field |
| term for taste | Gustation |
| how many taste buds are in the human mouth | 10,000 |
| the surface of the tongue is covered with bumps called | lingual paillae |
| taste cells have | banana shaped and have hairlike microvilli taste hair |
| stem cells in the taste bud that develop to replace taste cells as they die | basal cells |
| a meaty taste derived from some amino acids binding to taste hairs. | umami |
| the five primary tatse | salt, sweet,sour,bitter, umami |
| ____________is the result of a sensory signal sent to the brain | sensation |
| pertaining to the sense of smell. | olfactory |
| external ear flap composed of elastic cartilage | pinna |
| leads from an opening in the temporal bone | external auditory meatus |
| commonly known as the eardrum | tympanic membrane |
| an infection anywhere in the outer ear is called | otitis externa |
| the middle ear contains three tiny bones | ossicles |
| malleus is part of the | middle ear |
| incus is part of the | middle ear |
| stapes is part of the | middle ear |
| an infection of the middle ear | otitis media |
| fluid found in the cochlea of the inner ear. | perilymph |
| the arrangement of structures in the cochlear duct is called the | spinal organ and organ of corti |
| the hair cells are arranged on the _______of the cochlear duct | basilar membrane |
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