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Adaptation - Answer: the ability to no longer perceive sensations due to prolonged exposure
Sensory Receptor: Free Nerve Endings - Answer: Pain, Temperature, Tickle, Itch
Senroey Receptor: Encapsulated Nerve Endings - Answer: Touch, Pressure, Vibration
Mechanoreceptors - Answer: Respond to mechanical factors: Stretch, Touch, Pressure, Vibrations
Osmoreceptors - Answer: respond to the osmolarity of the blood (water homeostasis)
Thermoreceptors - Answer: respond to changes in temperature
Chemoreceptors - Answer: respond to chemicals
Photoreceptors - Answer: respond to light
Nociceptors - Answer: pain receptors: Fast, acute sharp pain and Slow, dull achy pain
Rods and Cones of the retina are an example of what? - Answer: Photoreceptors
Optic disc - Answer: area of the eye where the optic nerve and blood vessles enter and exit
What is the physiology of vision? - Answer: Lens will change shape, bending light further as it enters the
vitrous chamber and focuses on retina.
Olfactory Cells are an example of what sensory receptor? - Answer: Chemoreceptors
, Papilla - Answer: the bumps on the tongue containint taste buds
Vallate Papillae - Answer: 12 of them each containing 100-300 taste buds
What are the 5 taste sensations? - Answer: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami (savory)
Where is the organ of corti located and what sensory receptor is it? - Answer: Located in the Cochlea.
Mechanoreceptors
Sound travles through the outer ear how? - Answer: auricle, external auditory canal, tympanic
membrane (eardrum)
Sound travles through the middle ear how? - Answer: Eustachian tube, ossicles, oval window, round
window
Sound travles through the inner ear how? - Answer: Bony labyrinth and chochlea, organ of corti
Primary Endocrine structures - Answer: Structures whose roll is only int he production hormones.
Primary Endocrine structures - Answer: pineal gland, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland,
adrenal gland
Secondary Endocrine structures - Answer: Structures capable of producing hormones but that is not
their only function
Secondary Endocrin structures - Answer: Pancreas, Thymus, Skin, Heart, Stomach, Liver, Kidneys,
Hypothalamus, Gonads, and Small Intestine
Lipid Soluble - Answer: bound to transport proteins; receptors inside cells
steroid based, thyroid hormones, and nitric oxide