Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Sense Organs

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Sensory Organs   provides us with information about our surroundings and our internal activity.  
🗑
The 4 sensory pathways are   Receptor, Sensory neuron, sensory tracts, and sensory area.  
🗑
The receptor   detects stimuli and genrate impulses.  
🗑
The receptors sepecific types for each type of stimuli examples are   pressure, temperature, pain, light, etc.  
🗑
Sensory tracts   functionally related bundles of fibers in the white matter of the spinal cord or brain.  
🗑
Sensory areaa   usually in the cerebral cortex and interpret sensory input.  
🗑
There are 5 classification of receptors which are   Chemorecptor, mechanoreceptor, thermoreceptors, nociceptors, and photo receptors.  
🗑
Chemoreceptors   reacts to chemicals. For example, odors, taste, blood chemistry, etc.  
🗑
Mechanoreceptors   responds to pressure,stretch, or vibration. For example, physical movement. Also, detects sounds.  
🗑
Proprioceptors   are a type of mechanoreceptor in muscles and joints.  
🗑
Thermoreceptors   responds to temperature.  
🗑
Nociceptors   detect tissue damage and give the sense of pain.  
🗑
Photoreceptors   detect light.  
🗑
There are 5 characteristics of sensations which are   Type, projection, intensity, adaptation, and contrast.  
🗑
Sensation: Type   is sensory receptors only respond to one type of stimulus.  
🗑
Projection   is the preception of sensation in any given area.  
🗑
Each receptor is attached to a neuron that goes to a specific part of the brain from a specific part of the body   this is how the brain knows were the sensation comes from.  
🗑
Phantom pain   perception of pain in an area that doesn't exist.  
🗑
Intensity   determined by the number of receptors stimulated and the amount of stimulation in each.  
🗑
Adaptation is becoming _______ aware of the continuing stimulation.   less  
🗑
In adaptation, receptors generate _______ impulses with continued stimulation.   fewer  
🗑
Examples of adaptation are   "getting used to" hot shower, cool pool, hot tub, wrist watch.  
🗑
Contrast   effects of a previous or simultaneous sensation on a current sensation.  
🗑
An example of contrast is   cold pool on a hot day will feel cooler that it actually is.  
🗑
The 3 types of general senses are   Pain, temperature, and Touch.  
🗑
Pain   is detected by nociceptors which is free nerve endings.  
🗑
Fast fibers is an abundant in   the skin and the mucous membrane.  
🗑
Fast fiber pain example is   sharp stabbing pain; like when you have an injury.  
🗑
Slow fibers   are in deep body organs.  
🗑
Slow fiber pain example is   dull achy.  
🗑
Referred pain   is pain from the visceral organ felt in a cutaneous area.  
🗑
Temperature   can be detected by nere free endings.  
🗑
Temperature is located in the ______.   skin.  
🗑
Temperature pain can become painful at _________ ______________.   extreme temperatures.  
🗑
Touch is encapsulated nerve endings that detects   touch and pressure.  
🗑
Sensitivity is determined by the _____________ of receptors present.   number.  
🗑
The 2 special senses are   taste and smell.  
🗑
Taste also known as   gustation.  
🗑
The receptor in taste are called   taste buds.  
🗑
Taste buds are made of receptors called   gustatory cells.  
🗑
Gustatory cells also know as   taste cells.  
🗑
Chemoreceptor detects ___________ in food dissolved in saliva.   chemicals.  
🗑
Bumps on the tongue are called   papillae.  
🗑
There are 4 types of papillae:   vallate, foliate, filiform, and fungiform.  
🗑
Vallate is located   back of the tongue.  
🗑
Foliate are fold in the   back side.  
🗑
Filiform is the white formation in your tongue and   this does NOT have any taste buds.  
🗑
Fungiform looks like a   mushroom.  
🗑
Taste is enhance by   smell.  
🗑
Smell is also known as   Olfaction.  
🗑
Olfactory receptors are   Chemoreceptors.  
🗑
Chemorecptors detects   vaporized chemicals in the upper nasal cavity.  
🗑
Smell helps us ________ our food.   taste.  
🗑
There are 3 areas of the ear.   Outer ear, Middle ear, and Inner ear.  
🗑
The ear contains receptors for hearing and equilibrium found in the   inner ear.  
🗑
The outer ear includes   the auricle and ear canal.  
🗑
Auricle also known as   pinna  
🗑
Auricle   is an elastic cartilage covered with skin and funnels sound into the ear canal.  
🗑
Ear Canal is an external acoutic meatus, and it is lined with ceruminous and sebaceous glands. It ends at the   eardrum.  
🗑
Middle ear is ____ filled cavity that contaims the ossicles and is drained by the eustachian tubes.   air  
🗑
Eardrum also known as   tympanic membrane  
🗑
tympanic membrane   seperates the middle ear from the outer ear.  
🗑
the eardrum vibrates with sound waves and transfers energy to   ossicles.  
🗑
there are 3 types of auditory ossciles.   Malleus, Incus, and stapes.  
🗑
Malleus means   mallet or hammer.  
🗑
Incus is   anvil.  
🗑
Stapes looks like a   stirrup.  
🗑
Stapes transfers and amplifies sound to the ______ ________ of the inner ear.   oval window.  
🗑
Eustachian tubes also known as   auditory tubes.  
🗑
Auditory tubes extends from the middle ear to the   nasopharynx.  
🗑
Eustachian tubes permits _____ to enter and leave.   air.  
🗑
Auditory tubes can plug and cause ________ in an ear ehen changing elevation.   pressure.  
🗑
Otitis media   Middle ear infection (more common on younder children)  
🗑
Inner ear cavity called the   bony labyrinth in the temporal bone.  
🗑
The inner ear contains the   cochlea and vestibule.  
🗑
The cochlea is for   hearing.  
🗑
The vestibule is for   semicircular canals for equilibrium.  
🗑
Perilymph   is fluid between bone and membranous labyrinth.  
🗑
Endolymph   is fluid within the membnranous labyrinth.  
🗑
Cochlea is a ____-_______ structure for hearing.   snail-shaped.  
🗑
Cochlea duct contains the organ of Corti also known as   spiral organ.  
🗑
The spinal organ receptors called _______ that have specialized MIOCROVILLI projections sterocilla. (not actually hair).   hair cells  
🗑
The haircell microvilli projections transmit to the _____ _______ branch of the CN 8.   Cochlear VIII  
🗑
Tectorial membrane   overhangs the haircells and presses against the hair cell to trigger depolarization.  
🗑
How we interpret hearing is by vibrations caused by sound waves ------   ear canal, tympanic membrane, malleus, incus, stapes, oval window, perilymph & endolymph in the cochlea, hair cells in the organ of corti, CN 8, and temporal lobes.  
🗑
Round Window   is a membrane covered end of the cochlear duct just below the oval window.  
🗑
Round window bulges out to relieve pressure when the   oval window is depressed. ( Sad :( )  
🗑
Balance also know as   equilibrium.  
🗑
Inner ear balance impulses is carried by ____________ _________ of CN 8 dto the cerebellum, midbrain, and temporal lobes.   vestibular portion.  
🗑
Vestibule also known as   vestibule apparatus.  
🗑
Vestibule includes the   utricle and saccule.  
🗑
Membranous sacs in the vestibule is responsible for ________ equilibrium when at rest.   static (still)  
🗑
Vestibule hair cells detects movement of   otoliths.  
🗑
Semicirculars canals is responsible for dynamic equilibrium while _____.   moving. (starting, stopping, accelerating, decelerating, and change in direction.  
🗑
Ampulla is at the base of each   semicircular canal.  
🗑
Ampulla hairs cells detect movement of _______ in the canal by bending.   endolymph.  
🗑
Eyelids also known as   palpebrae  
🗑
Eyelids are controlled by the   skeletal system.  
🗑
Eyelids are used for protection, lubrication and cleaning. Eyelashes prevents   dust.  
🗑
Conjunctiva   is a think membrane that lines the eyelid and covers the sclera. (white part)  
🗑
Conjunctivitis   pink eye.  
🗑
Lacrimal glands produces   tears.  
🗑
tear exits in 2 small openings   (puncta lacrimalia) in the medial of the corner eye. Lacrimal Canal, Lacrimal Sac (in the lacrimal bone) Nasolacrimal duct (nasal cavity; crying makes nose run)  
🗑
Outer layer of the eye also known as   fibrous tunic.  
🗑
Outer layer of the eye includes   the scalera and Cornea.  
🗑
Sclera   is the white part and its the thickest.  
🗑
Cornea   is the transparent portion, has no capillaries, and first part of the pathway of light as it is refracted (bent) into the eye.  
🗑
Middle layer also known as   vascular tunic.  
🗑
Middle layer includes   the choroid layer, ciliary body and the iris.  
🗑
Choroid layer   contains most of the blood vessels of the eye and it is colored by a dark pigment made from melanin.  
🗑
Choroid layer absorbs light in the eye to prevent   glare.  
🗑
Ciliary body also known as   ciliary muscle.  
🗑
Ciliary body   is a circular muscle that surrounds and is connected to the lens by suspensory ligaments and it changes the shape of the lens so we can focus.  
🗑
Iris is the ______ part of the eye.   colored  
🗑
Pupil   is the opening of the eye.  
🗑
Pupil dilation   is the contraction of the radial fibers (sympathetic). It lets more light in, in darkness.  
🗑
Pupil Constriction   is the contraction of the circular fibers (parasympathetic) It blocks light when bright.  
🗑
Retina   is the inner layer and lines the posterior 2/3 of the eye.  
🗑
Retina contains visual receptors   rods and cones.  
🗑
Rods   detect all wave lengths of the visible light and most abundant toward the periphery of the retina.  
🗑
Cones   detect colors in different wavelengths of visible light and is most abundant in the conter os the retina mainly in the Macula Lutea directly behind the lens.  
🗑
Fovea Centralis (central indentation)   is a small depression in the macula that contains only cones and is the area for best color vision.  
🗑
Optic Disc   is an opening where the optic nerve exits the eye.  
🗑
Blind spot   is no visual recepters there.  
🗑
Posterior cavity of the eyeball also known as   vitreous chamber and it is between the lens and retina.  
🗑
Posterior cavity of the eyeball is   large.  
🗑
Posterior cavity of the eyeball contains the vitreous humor also known as   vitreous body.  
🗑
The vitreous Humor   is a semisolid substance (like jello) to keep the retina in place.  
🗑
Anterior cavity of the eyeball   is between the lens and cornea.  
🗑
Anterior Chamber   is between the iris and cornea.  
🗑
Posterior Chamber   is between the iris and lens.  
🗑
Anterior cavity of the eyeball contains   aqueous humor.  
🗑
Aqueous humor   is formed by filtration from the capillaries in the cillary body, then reabsorbed by the canal of Schlemm.  
🗑
Canal of Schlemm also known as   scleral venous sinus.  
🗑
Physiology of vision is when   light is focused on the retina, receptors generate impulses, visual areas of the brain interpret.  
🗑
Refraction   is bending of light rays as they pass through the eye.  
🗑
Lens are adjustable part of the refractory systens and focuses the image on the   retina.  
🗑
Lens at rest _________ ligament pull lens tight (flattening the lens)   suspensory.  
🗑
When focusing (accomodation) on near objects the ciliary muscle contracts (makes a smaller circle) bringing the ciliary process closer to the lens thus allowing the lens to become more _________   convex.  
🗑
When light hits the retina rods   the chemical rhodopsin breaks down and causes a nerve impulse, any wavelength triggers it, and rhodopsin is the resynthasized (vitamin A).  
🗑
When light hits the retina cones   is similar reaction to rods, it requires specific wavelengths to colors red, green, blue.  
🗑
Binocular vision (2 eyes)   allows for depth perception and it requires eyes to converge to eliminate double vision.  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: nmartinez06
Popular Anatomy sets