Bio chp 16
Correctly match the letter to the photoreceptor or eye part.
A choroid B pigmented cell layer C outer segment D inner segment
Match the three distinct regions of the ear with the letter on the left using the image as your guide.
A external ear B middle ear C inner ear
Using the given image of the eye, match the letter and structure.
A pupil B sclera C iris D lateral palpebral commissure
Match the letter to the photoreceptor or photoreceptor part.
A rod B cone C cell body
Match the letter and the structure using the provided image of the spiral organ.
A tectorial membrane B stereocilia C cochlear nerve D basilar membrane
Match the letter with the region of the eye.
A: fibrous tunic B: vascular tunic C: retina
What region of the eye contains the ciliary body?
B
______ occurs when impulses from an organ are perceived as originating from the skin.
Referred pain
Which cavity of the eyeball is divided into an anterior and posterior chamber?
anterior cavity
What chamber is between the iris and cornea?
anterior chamber
Which are the characteristics of the cornea?
avascular transparent
When the ________ membrane moves, the ______ on the spiral organ hair cells distort because they are anchored by the tectorial membrane.
basilar stereocilia
Gustatory cells are found in taste _________.
buds or receptors
Gustatory cells are ______.
chemoreceptors
The auditory sensory axons of the _______ branch of cranial nerve number _______ terminate in the cochlear nucleus within the brainstem.
cochlear VIII or 8
The limbus is the junction between the sclera and the ______.
cornea
Light rays are refracted or bent when they pass through two media of different ______.
densities
Which is an accessory structure of the eye?
eyebrow
The sense of smell is called ______.
olfaction
A feature common to all receptors is ______.
ability to respond to a stimulus
Receptors of the human body convert stimulus energy into ______.
an electrical signal (impulses)
True or false: The eye is spherical, measuring about 5 centimeters in diameter, and most of it is receded into the orbit of the skull.
false Reason: The eye is about 2.5 cm
The external layer of the eyeball is the ______ tunic.
fibrous
Pain is an example of a ______ sense.
general
Optic tracts ultimately are directed to the primary visual cortex in the ______ lobe.
occipital
Fill in the blank question. The fat surrounding the eye is called ______ fat.
orbital or periorbital
Olfactory receptors ______.
perceive odors
The external ear is located mostly on the outside of the body, while the middle and inner ear areas are housed within the _______ part of the temporal bone.
petrous
What type of receptor can undergo adaptation?
phasic
Fill in the blank question. If stimulated over a period of time, ______ receptors lose eventually sensitivity.
phasic or adapting
Most of the eye is ______ the orbit of the skull.
receded into
The area that a receptor cell gathers information from is called the ______.
receptive field
Some individuals experience pain in their left shoulder during a heart attack. This is an example of ______.
referred pain
The apparent distortion of the spoon in the water glass is due to the phenomenon called ________.
refraction
Sensory receptors in which structures help monitor and adjust our equilibrium?
saccule semicircular ducts utricle
What structure is the "white" of the eye?
sclera
What structure makes up the posterior 5/6 of the fibrous tunic?
sclera
Which part of the eye is an attachment site for extrinsic eye muscles?
sclera
Receptors for general senses are usually ______.
simple structure
Localization and sensitivity are easily determined in a ______ receptive field.
small
Olfaction is the sense of ______.
smell
The middle and inner ear are in which bone?
temporal bone
Optic tracts extend to which structures after they leave the optic chiasm?
the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus superior colliculi
The vascular tunic of the eye is also called the ______.
uvea
Which layer of the eye contains the blood and lymph vessels?
vascular tunic
Hearing and our sense of balance comes from the stimulation of which cranial nerve?
vestibulocochlear
Fill in the blank question. The term equilibrium refers to our awareness and monitoring of our _______ position.
head
The vestibulocochlear nerve transmits ______ information.
hearing and equilibrium
Mechanoreceptors located in the skin and mucous membranes are called ______ receptors.
tactile
What is the most numerous type of receptor?
tactile receptors
Gustation is the sense of ______
taste
What is the name of structure A in the picture of the spiral organ?
tectorial membrane