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What receptor detects pain?
Nociceptors
What receptor detects temperature variation (warmth/cold)?
What receptor detects dissolved chemicals?
What receptor detects photons?
What receptor detects pressure, stretch, vibrations?
What is a special type of mechanoreceptor, located within joints, ligaments, and muscles to specifically detect the position of the body in space?
Proprioceptor
What is a specific mechanoreceptor that detects the stretch of hollow organs and tubes?
Baroreceptors
What are the 2 types of photoreceptors?
Cones and Rods
What are free dendritic endigns?
Nociceptors and thermoreceptors
What are the types of chemoreceptors?
Taste buds and olfactory receptors
What are the types of mechanoreceptors?
Meissner’s corpuscle, pacinian corpuscle, muscle spindle, cochlear hair cells
What are the special senses of the body?
smell, taste, hearing, equilibrium, and vision
Olfactory bulb
Olfactory tract
Olfactory receptor cells (chemoreceptors)
Cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone
Olfactory neuron
Which cranial nerves are involved in taste?
Facial nerve (CN VII), glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX), and vagus nerve (CN X)
Where are gustatory (taste) receptor cells located?
Within taste buds
Where are taste buds found?
Along the edges of papillae on the tongue surface
What are papillae?
Structures on the tongue formed by stratified squamous epithelium
Where are papillae located?
On the dorsal surface of the tongue
What type of stimuli do gustatory receptors detect?
Dissolved chemicals
Dorsum of the tongue
Papillae
Circumballate (vallate) papillae
Fungiform papillae
Filiform papillae
Tastebuds
Taste buds (along the edge of the papilla)
Taste pores
Gustatory receptor cells (chemoreceptors)›
External ear
Auricle/Pinna
External acoustic meatus/ canal
Tympanic membrane
What is included in the external ear?
Auricle/Pinna, External acoustic meatus/canal, and tympanic membrane
What is included in the middle ear?
Ear ossicles, malleus, incus, stapes, auditory (eustachian) tube
What is included in the internal ear?
Bony labyrinth, cochlea, membranous labyrinth, cochlear duct
Ear ossicles
Malleus
Incus
Stapes
Auditory (eustachian) tube
Bony labyrinth
Cochlea
membranous labyrinth
Cochlear duct
Cochlear nerve of the vestibulocochlear nerve
Vestibular duct (scala vestibuli), bony labryinth
Cochlear duct (scala media) - membranous labyrinth
Tympanic duct (scala tympani) - bony labyrinth
Vestibular membrane
Basilar membrane
Spiral organ (organ of corti)
Receptor cells (mechanoreceptors)
Tectorial membrane
Perilymph (within vestibular and tympanic duct)
Endolymph (within cochlear duct)
Osseous labyrinth
Semicircular canals
Vestibule
Membranous labyrinth
What is included in the membranous labyrinth?
Semicircular ducts, ampullae, utricle, saccule
What is included in the osseous labyrinth?
Semicircular canals, vestibule
semicircular ducts
Ampullae
Utricle
Saccule
Hair cells
Vestibular nerve (part of the vestibulocochlear nerve)
Cochlea
Vestibular duct
Cochlear duct
Tympanic duct
Vestibular membrane
Basilar membrane
Tectorial membrane
Organ of corti
Receptor hair cells
Cochlear nerve
What are extrinsic eye muscles?
External skeletal muscles that allow movement of the eyes
What are intrinsic eye muscles?
Internal smooth muscles that dilate or constrict the iris
What type of receptors are found in the eye?
Photoreceptors
Where are photoreceptors located?
In the retina
What is another name for the nervous tunic of the eye?
Retina
What are the three layers (tunics) of the eye?
Fibrous tunic, vascular tunic, and nervous tunic
What is the fibrous tunic?
The tough outer layer of the eye
What is the vascular tunic?
The middle layer of the eye containing many blood vessels
What is the nervous tunic?
The inner layer of the eye composed mainly of photoreceptors and neurons
What is included in the fibrous tunic?
Sclera, cornea
Fibrous tunic
Sclera
Cornea
What is included in the vascular tunic?
Choroid, ciliary body, iris
Vascular tunic
Choroid
Ciliary body
Iris
What is included in the nervous tunic - retina?
optic disc (blind spot), fovea (within maculae lutea)