What are the ear stones? - ANSWER Otoliths-help with balance and equilibrium
Receptors activated by specific action - ANSWER Thermoreceptors
Nociceptors
Mechanoreceptors
Cranial nerves that control eye movement - ANSWER Oculomotor
Trochlear
Abducens
Fovea Centralis - ANSWER Part of Retina that contains the highest amount of
photoreceptors
Optic Disc - ANSWER Optic nerve exits through here
Pt of retina the has NO photoreceptors
where blood vessels enter eye
Sound transmission in ear - ANSWER Pinna (auricle)--external auditory canal--tympanic
membrane (vibrates back and forth; pushes on the ossicles)--malleolus, incus, stapes--fluid in
the inner ear becomes wavy and stimulates mechanoreceptors (hair cells) in the cochlea
Which receptors never experience adaptation? - ANSWER Nociceptors--Pain
Receptors controlled by being stretched or pushed on - ANSWER Mechanoreceptors
, ie-Bladder distention
The receptor of the nose - ANSWER chemoreceptors
Which structure contains tracts that carry nerve impulses to/from brain? - ANSWER White
matter
Endocrine glands - ANSWER ductless
release hormones
hormones travel through blood to targets
lamellated corpuscles - ANSWER common in deeper subcut. tissues, tendons, ligaments
detect heavy pressure
tactile corpuscles - ANSWER abundant in hairless portions of skin
detect light touch
microglia - ANSWER perform phagocytosis, eat germs, clean up cellular debris when cells die
astrocytes - ANSWER deliver nutrients
help form synapses
regulate fluid in interstial
ependymal cells - ANSWER line ventricles
move CSF
circulate CSF in ventricle of brain and central canal of spinal cord
oligodendrocytes - ANSWER make up myelin sheath in CNS
schwann cells - ANSWER make up myelin sheath in PNS
depolarization - ANSWER Na+ channels open and Na+ moves inside cell
inside the cell becomes more positive
repolarization - ANSWER K+ moves out of cell
goes back to normal state
inside cell becomes more negative
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