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The _____ stimulate action potentials in the sensory neurons which are conducted to the brain where the sense of taste is perceived.
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Each of the 10,000 taste buds on a person’s tongue consists of _______ major types of specialised epithelial cells
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3. Sounds louder than _____________ db are painful to the ear
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4. How many primary tastes have been identified in humans?
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5. The ______ is a set of fluid-filled chambers medial to the middle ear.
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6. Static balance is associated with the ______ and the saccule of the vestibule.
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Olfactory neurons are bipolar neurons with dendrites extending to the epithelial surface of the _______
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8. The average person can distinguish among approximately _____ different smells
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The _____________ or loudness, of sound is a function of wave amplitude, or height, measured in decibels.
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10. The sclera is continuous with the_____, the anterior sixth of the eyeball.
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11. The middle ear contains three auditory ossicles: the malleus, incus, and_____________.
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12. The middle ear contains ______________auditory ossicles
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13. Static balance is associated with the utricle and the _____ of the vestibule.
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14. The ______ of the eye is so named because it contains most of the blood vessels of the eye
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15. _____ of the hairs toward the kinocilium results in depolarization of the hair cell.
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16. MSG stands for_______
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17. Receptors on the hairs detect ______
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18. The head to the eardrum is also called _______
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19. ______ is distortion in odour perception (includes parosmia and phantosmia)
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The ends of the dendrites are modified into bulbous enlargements with long specialised cilia called _______
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21. The ______cells of each taste bud consist of about 50 taste cells.
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22. A small superior part of the nasal cavity is lined with______.
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23. Axons from olfactory neurons form the _______
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24. Sensitivity for bitter substances is the highest.
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25. _____ consist of taste cells, basilar cells, and supporting cells.
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26. The distortion of the tympanic membrane can make sounds seem muffled and stimulate pain.
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27. A condition in which there is enhanced smell sensitivity is called_____
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The “hairs” of the hair cells consist of numerous microvilli, called_____, and one cilium, called a kinocilium.
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______ of the inner hair cells by the nervous system stimulates the contraction of actin filaments within the hair cells, causing them to shorten.
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30. The _____________collects sound waves and directs them into the external acoustic meatus.
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31. How many taste buds do adults have?
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32. Substances called ______ dissolve in saliv
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33. The term ______ refers to the vestibule of the inner ear, which is involved in balance.
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34. The binding of tastants to receptors on the taste hairs activates ______
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Olfactory neurons are ______ neurons with dendrites extending to the epithelial surface of the nasal cavity.
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36. The ______________ is a thin membrane separating the external ear from the middle ear.
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37. ____ is distortion of perception of an external stimulus
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38. The tensor tympani and stapedius muscles are attached to ______ ossicles.
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The auditory tube opens into the _____________ and enables air pressure to be equalised between the outside air and the middle ear cavity.
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40. Light enters the eye through the _______
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The ______ helps maintain the shape of the eyeball, protects its internal structures, and provides an attachment point for the extrinsic eye muscles.
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_____ attach the ciliary ring and processes to the lens of the eye, and contraction of the ciliary muscles can change the shape of the lens.
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Within the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex, ______ occur that tend to inhibit transmission of action potentials resulting from prolonged exposure to a given odorant.
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44. The sensory cells of each taste bud consist of about 50______.
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45. The brain interprets the higher frequency of action potentials as a _____sound.
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The fibrous layer consists of the sclera and cornea; the vascular layer consists of the_____, ciliary body, and iris.
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47. ______ is a complex process not simply confined to one type of input.
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Each of the ______ taste buds on a person’s tongue consists of three major types of specialised epithelial cells
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The _____opens into the pharynx and enables air pressure to be equalised between the outside air and the middle ear cavity.
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A ______ pathway allows the maintenance of visual fixation on an object while the head is in motion.
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