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Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.
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1. The ______ is a set of fluid-filled chambers medial to the middle ear.
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2. _________ smell perception with no external stimulus
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3. The ciliary ring and the base of the ciliary processes contain smooth muscle called_____.
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4. Food served at the wrong ______ is perceived as distasteful.
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The _____________ or loudness, of sound is a function of wave amplitude, or height, measured in decibels.
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The fibrous layer consists of the sclera and cornea; the _____consists of the choroid, ciliary body, and iris.
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7. Receptors on the hairs detect ______
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8. The external and middle ears are involved in ______only
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9. ______ enters the eye through the pupil
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_____ is associated with the semicircular canals and is involved in evaluating changes in the direction and rate of head movements.
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11. The range of normal human speech is ___
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12. Each taste cell has several microvilli, called ______
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13. The organs of hearing and balance are divided into ______ parts.
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14. The sensory cells of each taste bud consist of about 50______.
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The wide varieties of detectable odours are actually combinations of a smaller number of ______odours.
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16. Axons from olfactory neurons form the _______
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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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_____ 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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19. The head to the eardrum is also called _______
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20. The middle ear contains three auditory ossicles: the malleus, incus, and_____________.
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21. The ______ is an air-filled chamber medial to the tympanic membrane.
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22. There are _____ semicircular canals placed at nearly right angles to one another.
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23. ______ is distortion in odour perception (includes parosmia and phantosmia)
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24. The cells of the taste buds each have a normal life span of about ______days.
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The ______ is continuous anteriorly with the ciliary body, which consists of an outer ciliary ring and an inner group of ciliary processes.
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26. The iris contains ______ groups of smooth muscles
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27. Rupture of the tympanic membrane may result in_____.
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The oval window is approximately ____________ times smaller than the tympanic membrane.
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The ______ consists of a connective tissue matrix containing collagen, elastic fibers, and proteoglycans, with a layer of stratified squamous epithelium covering the outer surface and a layer of simple squamous epithelium on the inner surface.
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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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31. The brain interprets the higher frequency of action potentials as a _____sound.
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32. The remaining two nonsensory cell types are basal cells and_____
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Airborne odorants become dissolved in the mucus on the surface of the epithelium and bind to molecules on the membranes of the olfactory hairs called______
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34. The binding of tastants to receptors on the taste hairs activates ______
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35. Rupture of the _____may result in hearing impairment.
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36. The _____ contains the sensory organs for hearing and balance
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37. A slight oscillatory movement of the eyes, called _____ occurs.
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Each taste cell has several taste hairs extending from its apex into a tiny opening in the epithelium called the______
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Stimulation of the inner hair cells by the nervous system stimulates the contraction of ______________ within the hair cells causing them to shorten.
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40. The middle ear contains ______________auditory ossicles
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The importance of taste lies in the fact that it allows a person to select _____ in accord with desires
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42. Distortion of the ______ membrane can make sounds seem muffled and stimulate pain
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43. _____ consist of taste cells, basilar cells, and supporting cells.
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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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45. Deflection of the hairs toward the kinocilium results in ______of the hair cell
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46. The ____________and stapedius muscles are attached to auditory ossicles.
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47. Sounds louder than _____________ db are painful to the ear
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48. Deflection of the hairs toward the ______ results in depolarization of the hair cell.
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49. How many taste buds do adults have?
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50. When an odorant binds to its receptor, a______associated with the receptor is activated.
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