Anatomy and Physiology: Special Sensors Terms

Special Sensors

1. Rhodopsin: a photopigment presented in rod cells in the retina

2. Motion sickness: condition described as a disorder of balance and equilibrium

3. Basal cells: act as stem cell, constantly replenishing the supply of the olfactory receptors cells

4. Ciliary muscles: contraction causes the lens to become more convex

5. 10,000: is the approximate the number of taste buds present on the tongue:

6. Olfactory: detect dissolved chemicals as part of the sensory process

7. Hearing: senses involves hair cells

8. Bitter: humans usually have the lowest threshold of this taste category

9. Smoky: is not a primary taste

10. Epithelia tissue: this tissue describes the olfactory mucosal located on the roof of the nasal cavity

11. Filiform: this type of lingual papillae does not have associated buds

12. Stratifies squamous epithelium: is found on the dorsal surface of the tongue

13. Internal limiting membrane: is the first layer of the retina that light strikes after entering the eye

14. Inner Hair cells: responsible for the process of sound transduction

15. Sclera: the white of the eye

16. Touch is not a special sense

17. Oderant molecule binds to a G protein is the first thing that happen if olfaction is going

18. Taste: a common term for the gustatory sense

19. fungiform papillae: Mushroom-shaped elevations located on the anterior part of the dorsal surface of the tongue

20. Calcium: The depolarization of an inner hair cell leads to the opening of voltage-gated channels that admit this ion into the cell resulting in the increased secretion of molecules of neurotransmitter

21. Photoreceptor cell II: contains the photopigment

22. Vertigo: a condition described as a disorder of balance and equilibrium

23. Emmetropic: describes an eye that requires no correction of focus

24. Mechanoreceptor: describes the types of receptor in the inner ear associated with balance and...