Sensory Anatomy & Physiology

Referred pain occurs when the brain projects the sensation back to the original source in the body fro which pain originated.

• True

• False

Nerve impulses from taste receptors can travel in the facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerve.

• True

• False

The auditory ossicles are located within the inner ear.

• True

• False

The utricle and saccule contain the sensory receptors associated with the sense of dynamic equilibrium.

• True

• False

Tears contain an enzyme that functions to reduce the chances of developing an eye infection.

• True

• False

When the radial muscles of the iris contract, the diameter of the pupil deceases.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Rods are more sensitive to light than cones, but cones are important for color vision.

• True

• False

Receptors stimulated by changes in temperature are called ____________.

• ampullae

• referred pain

• accommodation

• thermoreceptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Pain that feels like it is coming from a part other than the part being stimulated is called

• referred pain

• ampullae

• chronic pain

• acute pain

The stapes transmits vibrations to the inner ear through the

• fovea centralis

• conjunctiva

• oval window

• malleus