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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| arch design to let water flow around the eyes rather than letting the rain enter them. provide degree of shade | eyebrows |
| extrnal; visible funnel-shpaed cartilage part we see as our "ear", serves to collect and funnel sound waves into the ear structure | pinna |
| bleeding between ear cartilage and skin that results in swelling | cauliflower |
| narrow, 1" long channel that condenses sound waves and carries them onto the eardrum | Meatus Canal |
| hairs and special sweat glands; secrete protective ear wax that contains anti-bacterial chemicals to fight ear infections | Ceruminous |
| size of your "pinkie" fingernail, and is the "dividing wall" between the external and middle ear sections | eardrum |
| 3 minute bones and two passageway openings, one into the temporal bone & the other into pharynx throat | Middle Ear Anatomy (tympanic cavity) |
| small channel-tube passage that allows air to enter the middle ear, making it a "air pressure relief-value" | Eustachain tube |
| 3 bones in the body that do not grow after birth | Malleus, Incus, Staples |
| maze of tunnel chambers deep within the temporal bones structure filled with fluid and concerned with both hearing and balance/equilibruim | inner ear labyrinth |
| actual organ of hearing | cochlea |
| interpretation, thus we hear. experience sounds of low or high frequencies based on how far up the nerve hairs are "tickled" by fluid | auditory nerve |
| center of human balance | semicircular canals |
| sense of smell and taste are tied together known as | chemical |
| when atmoshperic odors enter each nostril, they travel to the upper back portion where 6-8 smell patches are located which contain neuron dendrite receptors | olfactory hairs |
| facial bone | ethmoid |
| smell center attached to the under surface of the brain's cerebrum hemishere | olfactory bulb |
| complete loss of smell | anosmia |
| taste buds | papillae |
| delicate, light-touch receptors found abundantly in sensitve body areas such as fingertips, lips, eyelids, nipples, and gender sex organs | meissner's corpuscles |
| larger receptors located deep in joints, muscles, that respond to vibration and pressure changes and elict a more crude, gross "heavy" touch sensation | Pacinian Corpuscles |
| interpret heat, hot, or burning sensations | ruffini's corpuscles |
| interpret cold, freezing sensations | krause corpuscles |
| messages along bain fibers to the brain where it's registered as pain and the brain sounds two alarms | Prostaglandins |
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