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Sense Organs

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Sensory receptor   any structure specialized to detect a stimulus  
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transduction   the conversion of one energy to another  
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Sensation   awareness of the stimulus  
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Modality   the type of stimulus or the sensation it produces  
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Location   encoded by which nerve fibers are sending signals to the brain  
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Intensity   strength of stimuli based on which fibers are firing, and how fast those fibers are firing  
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Duration   how long the stimulus lasts  
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Classification of Receptors   -By stimulus modality -by origin of stimulus  
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Thermoreceptors   respond to heat and cold  
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Photoreceptors   respond to light  
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Nociceptors   respond to tissue injury  
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Chemoreceptors   respond to chemicals  
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Mechanoreceptors   respond to physical deformation of a cell  
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Exteroreceptors   detect stimuli outside the body  
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Interoceptors   detect stimuli in the internal organs  
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Proprioceptors   detect the position and movements of the body  
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Unencapsulated Nerve Endings   sensory dendrites that are not wrapped with CT  
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Free nerve endings   detect pain, heat, cold  
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Tactile discs   detect light touch and pressure  
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Hair receptors   detect hair movement  
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Encapsulated Nerve Endings   nerve fibers wrapped in glial cells or CT  
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Tactile corpuscles   detect light touch and texture, in dermal papillae  
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End bulbs   similar to tactile corpuscles but are found in mucous membranes of the lips and tongue, and conjunctiva  
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Lamellar corpuscles   detect deep pressure, stretch, tickle, and vibration  
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Bulbous corpuscles   detect heavy touch, pressure, and stretching of skin, and joint movement  
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Nociceptors..   ..occur in skin, mucosa, all organs except brain and liver  
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Myelinated pain fibers produce fast pain   a feeling of sharp, localized pain perceived at the time of injury  
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Unmyelinated pain fibers produce slow pain   longer-lasting, dull, diffuse feeling  
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Injured tissues   release chemicals that stimulate the nociceptors and trigger pain  
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Referred pain   pain in the viscera is mistakenly thought to come from skin  
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Taste   Gustation  
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Lingual papillae   surface protrusions on the tongue  
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Filiform papillae   tiny spikes without taste buds that detect the texture of food  
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Foliate papillae   parallel ridges on the sides of the tongue that lose most of the taste buds by age 2-3  
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Fungiform papillae   widely distributed, but concentrated at the tip and sides of the tongue  
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Vallate papillae   papillae arranged in a V at the rear of the tongue  
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Taste buds   groups of taste cells, supporting cells, and basal cells  
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Taste cell   epithelial cell with taste hairs, which serve as receptors, and that release neurotransmitters at their base to stimulate sensory nerve fibers  
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Basal cells   stem cells that multiply and replace taste cells  
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Primary tastes   salty, sweet, sour, bitter, umame  
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Smell   Olfaction  
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Olfactory mucosa   a patch of olfactory cells, supporting cells, and basal stem cells in the roof of the nasal cavity  
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Olfactory cells   neurons with olfactory hairs, cilia that have binding sites for odor molecules, on the modified dendrite  
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The axons leave the nasal cavity through ..   ..the cribriform foramina and converge to become cranial nerve I  
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An odorant molecule ..   .binds to a receptor on an olfactory hair  
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Binding..   ..activates a 2nd messenger system  
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The cell depolarizes triggering ..   ..an action potential that transmits a signal to the brain  
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The signal travels ..   ..to the orbitofrontal cortex which receives input from taste and smell and integrates them into our overall perception of flavor  
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Outer ear   a funnel for conducting vibrations to the timpanic membrane  
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Auricle (pinna)   fleshy structure on the side of the head  
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Auditory canal   the passage leading through the temporal bone to the tympanic membrane  
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Middle ear   located in tympanic cavity of the temporal bone  
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Tympanic membrane   the membrane that closes the inner end of the auditory canal and vibrates free in response to the sound  
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Auditory tube   a passageway from the middle ear to the nasopharynx that allows air to enter to equalize air pressure  
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Auditory ossicles (malleus, incus, stapes)   bones that connect the tympanic membrane to the inner ear  
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Oval window   opening covered by the stapes  
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Inner Ear   passage ways in the temporal bone  
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Vestibule   a chamber that contains organs of equilibrium  
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Cochlea   a coiled tube that is the organ of hearing  
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Scala vestibuli and scala tympani   chambers filled with perilymph that connect at the apex of the cochlea  
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Cochlear duct   middle chamber of the cochlea formed by the vestibular membrane and basilar membrane  
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Spiral organ   cells and membranes in the cochlear duct that convert vibrations into nerve impulse  
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Hair cells   sensory cells with short projections called stereocilia  
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Tectorial membrane   gelatinous layer resting on hair cells  
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- sound   an audible vibration of molecules  
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Transmission   air  tympanic membrane  ossicles  perilymph  vestibular membrane  basilar membrane  round window membrane  
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The reverse for outward vibration ...   ..pushes the basilar membrane up and pushes the hair cells against the tectorial membrane  
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On Inner Hair Cells is..   ..a protein at its tip that functions as a gated ion channel  
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If the basilar membrane rises,   the IHC push against the tectorial membrane bending the stereocilia and pulling open the gate  
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K+ in the ______ flows through the gate and depolarizes the hair cells   endolymph  
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The hair cells release ....   ...a neurotransmitter from the base which stimulates the dendrites of a sensory neuron of cochlear nerve  
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Equilibrium   coordination, balance, and orientation in 3-D space  
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Saccule and utricle   chambers in the vestibule of the inner ear  
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Macula   hair cells and supporting cells in the saccule and utricle  
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Otolithic membrane   gelatinous layer the stereocilia hair cells are embedded in  
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When the head is tilted ..   ..the otolithic membrane sags and bend the stereocilia, stimulating the hair cells  
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When you begin moving or stop....   ..the otolithic membrane moves at a different speed than the rest of the tissue thus bending the stereocilia and stimulating a nerve signal to advise the brain of a change in velocity  
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The Semicircular ducts   passageways filled with endolymph that detect rotational movements  
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Crista ampullaris   hair cells and supporting cells in the ampulla  
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Cupula   gelatinous cap the stereocilia are embedded in  
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When the head turns..   the duct rotates but the endolymph lags behind, pushing the cupula thus bending the stereocilia and stimulating the hair cells  
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The hair cells synapse ..   ..at their bases with sensory fibers of the vestibular nerve  
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Eyebrows   facial expressions and protect eyes from glare and sweat  
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Eyelids   block foreign objects from the eye, blink to moisten eyes etc.  
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Conjuctiva   transparent mucous membrane that covers the inner surface of the eyelid and the anterior surface of the eye except the cornea, which secretes mucous to prevent the eyeball from drying  
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Lacrimal gland   gland at the superolateral corner of the orbit that produces tears  
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Lacrimal punctum   pore on medial corner that collect tears  lacrimal canal  lacrimal sac  nasolacrimal duct  nasal cavity  
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Extrinsic eye muscles   muscles attach to the walls of the orbit and the external surface of the eyeball that move the eye  
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Fibrous layer   (tunic fibrosa)  
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Sclera   white of the eye, of dense CT perforated by BV and nerves  
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Cornea   anterior transparent region that admits light into the eye  
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Vascular layer   (tunica vasculosa)  
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Choroid   posterior, highly vascular, pigmented layer  
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Ciliary body   muscular ring around the lens that supports the iris and lens and secretes aqueous humor  
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Iris   Adjustable diaphragm that controls the diameter of the pupil  
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Inner layer (tunica interna)   retina and the beginning of the optic nerve  
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Optical Components   transparent elements that admit light rays  
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Aqueous humor   serous fluid secreted by the ciliary body into the posterior chamber which flows though the pupil into the anterior chamber where it is reabsorbed by the sclera venous sinus  
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Lens   transparent oval suspended behind the pupil by suspensory ligaments attached to the ciliary body  
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Vitreous body   transparent jelly filling the space behind the lens  
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Retina   transparent membrane attached to the back of the eye  
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Macula lutea   center of the retina with the fovea centralis which produces the most finely detailed images  
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Optic disc   where the optic nerves leave the rear of the eye and BV enter and exit the eye  
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Blind spot   optic disc contain no receptor  
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Pupillary constriction   smooth muscles stimulated by the PNS that narrow the pupil and admit less light into the eye  
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Pupillary dilation   myoepithelial cells stimulated by the SNS that widen the pupil and admit more light into the eye  
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Refraction   the bending of light rays  
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Light that passes through the very center of the eye ..   ..is not bent  
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Light that passes through at an angle..    
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The refraction by the lens ..   ..fine-tunes the image  
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The Near Response   adjustment to close-range vision  
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Convergence of the eyes   orients the visual axis of each eye toward the object in order to focus the image on each fovea  
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Constriction of the pupil   constriction decreases peripheral light rays so that refraction occurs closer to the better-focused center  
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Accommodation of the lens   change in the curvature of the lens that enables you to focus on near objects  
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Photoreceptor cells   absorb light and generate a signal  
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rods   responsible for night vision  
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Cones   responsible for day vision and color vision  
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Bipolar cells   first-order neurons; synapse with rods and cones  
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Ganglion cells   second-order neurons; axons form the optic nerve  
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Horizontal cells and amacrine cells   form horizontal connection between rod, cone, and bipolar cells that enhance the perception of contrast, the edge of objects and changes in light intensity  
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Visual pigments   located in the membrane of discs in rods and cones  
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Rhodopsin   visual pigment of rods consisting of opsin and retinal  
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Photopsin   visual pigment of cones consisting of retinal and three different opsin that have different absorption peaks – for color  
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Light adaption   pupil constricts to reduce light intensity  
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Dark adaptation   pupil dilates to admit more light into the eye  
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The high sensitivity of rods in dim light that stems in part from the neural convergence..   ..allows for a high degree of spatial summation  
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Peripheral vision   visual acuity decreases rapidly as the image forms away from the fovea centralis  
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High-resolution images   formed when you look directly at something and its image falls on the fovea because the fovea is only cones which do not converge  
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depth perception   the ability to judge how far away objects are  
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stereoscopic vision...   ..depends on two eyes with overlapping visual fields looking at the same object from different angles`  
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Middle-ear infection   infection spreads from the throat up the auditory tube to the tympanic cavity  
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Conductive deafness   any condition that interferes with transmission of vibrations to the inner ear  
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Sensorineural deafness   death of hair cells or any of the nervous elements concerned with hearing  
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Otosclerosis   fusion of the ossicles to each other or fusion of the stapes to the oval window  
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Cataracts   clouding of the lens  
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Glaucoma   elevated pressure within the eye that compresses the b.v. that nourish the retina  
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Detached retina   the retina separates from the wall of the eyeball  
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Astigmatism   deviation in the shape of the cornea causing vertical or horizontal to go out of focus  
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Hyperopia   eyeball is too short, causing difficulty seeing near objects  
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myopia   eyeball is too long, causing for difficulty seeing far objects  
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Presbyopia   reduced ability to accommodate for near vision with age  
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