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sensory system 101

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adaptation   smell adapts  
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Part of General senses   Touch  
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What is found with highest concentration being in the skin?   free nerve endings:pain  
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Golgi tendon receptors   proprioception  
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olfaction(smell)chemoreceptors what do they assist in?   assists in the sense of taste. sensitive, easily adapts, can respond to chemicals dissolved in water  
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Taste 4 basics?   salty, sweet, bitter, sour  
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special senses   vision(photoreceptors) hearing(mechanoreceptors) balance/equilibrium(mechanoreceptors)(located vestibule and semicircular canals)  
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Sclera   white of eye  
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cornea   other transparent surface, infront of eye  
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iris   colored part of eye  
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conjuctiva   covers the sclera  
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choroid   prevents scatter of light  
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pupil   hole  
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retina   innermost layer w/receptor cells  
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rods, cones   rods used in dim light, cones see colors red green and blue  
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where is the highest concentration of cones?   fovea centralis  
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optic disc   blind spot  
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vitreous humor   the posterior cavity(chamber) behind the lens  
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auricle   (pinna outside part) flappy exterior of ear  
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tympanic membrane   ear drum  
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3 bones of middle ear   malleus, incus, stapes (KNOW SEQUENCE)  
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stapes   attached to oval window(which is the border between middle and inner ear)  
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water fluid in the bony labyrinth   perilymph  
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endolymph   which is inside cochlea and semicircular canals  
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3 main parts of the inner ear(spaces)   vestibule, semicircular canals, cochlea  
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vestibule   balance; receptor is cristae ampullares  
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semicircular canals   balance  
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cochlea   hearing;receptor is organ of corti  
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