What branch of the cranial nerve is responsible for monitoring changes in equilibrium? -
✔️✔️Vestibular
This part of the eye:
1. consists of the sclera and the cornea
2. provides mechanical support and some protection of the eye
3. serves as a point of attachment for extrinsic eye muscles - ✔️✔️Fibrous tunic
This term refers to sensations of :
hot and cold
pain
touch and vibration - ✔️✔️General senses
This term refers to sensations of:
olfaction
vision
gustation
equilibrium - ✔️✔️Special senses
The fading of smell some time after you enter a room is an example of experiencing
what? - ✔️✔️sensory adaptation
Our perception of the environment is incomplete because why? - ✔️✔️1.humans do
not have receptors for every possible stimulus
2.our receptors have ranges of sensitivity
These receptors are stimulated by things that cause tissue damage - ✔️✔️pain
receptors (nociceptors)
The perception of pain coming from parts of the body that are not actually stimulated is
called what? - ✔️✔️Referred pain
Gustation and olfactory receptors are examples of what? - ✔️✔️Chemoreceptors
Sensory receptors that monitor the position of joints are called? - ✔️✔️proprioceptors
sensory receptors that respond to the changes in blood pressure are called? -
✔️✔️baroreceptors