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Hearing and Vision

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Sclera   white portion of eye, outer covering that protects eye  
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aqueous humor   produced by choriod plexus, supplies oxygen to lens and cornea  
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viterous humor   jelly-like, transmits light, does not undergo replacement  
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Lens   posterior to iris, fine tunes refraced light, serves to focus light on retina  
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Fibrous tunic   outer coat of eyeball: sclera and cornea  
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Vascular tunic   middle layer: choroid, ciliary body, iris  
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Choroid   has dark brown pigments to aborb light, vascular to give nutrients to other tunics  
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ciliary body   smooth muscles which control lens shape for near and far vision, connected to lens by suspensory ligaments  
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iris   between cornea and lens, regulates the amount of light entering the eye  
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Sensory tunic   retina: photoreceptors, bipolar cells, ganglion cells  
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light refraction   degree of refraction depends on curvature of the interface between two media  
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curvature of cornea   curvature is constant allowing for 75% of images to focus on the reinta  
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curvature of lens   allows for fine tunign of the image  
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accomodation   ability of eyes to keep image focused on retina as the distance between eye and object is changed  
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20 feet of more   ciliary muscles relax and lens is stretched  
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closer than 20 feet   ciliary muscles contract and lens is rounder , light rays are refracted more  
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Myopia/nearsightedness   lighted is refracted in front of the retina, use concave lens to diverge light  
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Hyperpia/farsightedness   light is refracted beyond retina, use convex lens to converge light  
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Rods   peipheral vision, shape discrimination/movement, night vision  
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Fovea centralis   contains only cones (sharpness of vision, color vision)  
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Photoreceptors: rods and cones   outer segment = photpigments (proteins) that undrego changes upon light absorption, and inner segment = continous with cell body  
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Photopigments   change shape as they absorb light, resynthensized in circadian rhythm  
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Rods   produce new discs in morning/first light  
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Cones   produce new discs at night  
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Rhodpsin   the only photopigment of rods, contains retinal (pigment) and opsin (protein)  
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Opsin   light absorbing poriton of all visual photopigments  
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Retinal   exists in two forms 11-cis-retinal and all-trans-retinal, converts to all-trans with light  
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Tympanic membrane (eardrum)   boundary between the outer and middle ear  
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Tympanic cavity   contains oval (vestibular) window and round (cochlear) window  
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Bony labyrinth   bony cavity: vestibule, semicircular canals, cochlea. Contains perilymph  
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Membranous labyrinth   inside the bony, floats in perillymph from bony and contains endolymph  
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vestibule   contains oval window, has membranous sacs for equilibirum: acceleration and head position  
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Otolith organs   within vestibule: utricle (horizontal acceleration) and saccule (vertical acceleration)  
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Semicircular canals   contious with the vestibule, contains cupula (rotational acceleration)  
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Cochlea   anterior to vestibule, contains receptor organs for hearing  
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Organ of Corti   receptor organ for hearing (endolymph)  
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Scala vestibuli   continous with the vestuble and oval window (perilymph)  
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Scala tympani   contious with the scala vestibule (perilymph)  
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Loudness   measured in wave amplitude  
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