Exam 9: Sensory System

What are the three bones in the middle ear cavity?

Which one of the following is NOT a receptor for touch or pressure?

Airborne molecules

The cranial nerve that transmits impulses for static and dynamic equilibrium is cranial nerve

A word that means "pertaining to taste" is

What is the term for the outermost tunic of the eye in the posterior region?

What is the term for the refractive component of the eye that adjusts for close vision?

The light sensitive pigment in the rods is rhodopsin.

The crista ampullaris is involved in detecting the position of the head relative to gravity or movement in a straight line.

The arrangement of the bones in the middle ear is

Visual impulses travel along the optic nerve to the optic chiasma,then along optic tracts to the thalamus,and then along optic radiations to the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex where they are interpreted.

Having to adjust to a dark room after walking in from a bright area is explained by the fact that

The middle layer of the bulbus oculi,the pigmented vascular tunic,is the

The sense of smell is

Which one of the following is an INCORRECT match of receptor and example?

What is the term for the pigmented portion of the eye that has radial and circular muscles?

Auditory impulses are transmitted along cranial nerve _____ and interpreted in the _____ lobe.

The correct pathway for the transmission of an impulse from the photoreceptor cells to the visual cortex in the brain begins in the rods/cones and continues along the

The pathway of light to reach the visual receptors follows the sequence

An auditory impulse is initiated when the hairs on the hair cells are deformed by contact with the