Special Senses

Taste receptor cells

• fungiform

• gustatory cells

• cones

• olfactory bulb

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Common type of papillae that contains taste buds

• fungiform

• tears

• lacrimal

• olfactory bulb

Brain area that receives smell impulses

• olfactory bulb

• cones

• tears

• lacrimal

Which of the following is NOT true about the eyes?

• responds to light stimuli

• it floats in the bony orbit

• a hollow sphere filled with fluid

• contains 70% of all sensory receptors

The iris controls the size of the

• pupil

• retina

• sclera

• cones

Sound waves entering the external auditory canal hit the

            eardrum, also known as the

• semicircular canals

• cochlea

• papillae

• tympanic membrane

Dynamic equilibrium receptors are located in the

• semicircular canals

• cochlea

• papillae

• tympanic membrane

Photoreceptors that detect color

• tears

• olfactory bulb

• cones

• gustatory cells

•Pinna -----> auditory canal -----> tympanic membrane -----> malleus -----> incus -----> stapes -----> cochlea -----> Organ of Corti -----> _________ -----> temporal lobe of brain

__________ are group of taste cells that are located inside the papillae.