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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. _____ is mainly a function of the taste buds in the mouth
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2. Deflection of the _____ toward the kinocilium results in depolarization of the hair cell.
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3. The odorants must first be dissolved in fluid in order to reach the olfactory receptors.
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4. _____ is a complete loss of smell
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5. The term _____ refers to the cochlea of the inner ear, which is involved in hearing
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The cochlear nerve joins the vestibular nerve to become the_____, which traverses the internal acoustic meatus and enters the cranial cavity.
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7. The _____ contains the sensory organs for hearing and balance
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8. Taste is mainly a function of the _____ in the mouth
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Substances called tastants dissolve in saliva, enter the taste pores, and by various mechanisms cause the taste cells to______.
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10. The ______ of the eye is so named because it contains most of the blood vessels of the eye
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11. _____ is the least understood of our senses.
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12. ____ is distortion of perception of an external stimulus
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13. When an odorant binds to its receptor, a______associated with the receptor is activated.
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14. The _____________ is attached to the medial surface of the tympanic membrane.
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The _____ joins the vestibular nerve to become the vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII), which traverses the internal acoustic meatus and enters the cranial cavity.
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17. The ______ is an air-filled chamber medial to the tympanic membrane.
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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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Olfactory neurons are bipolar neurons with _____ extending to the epithelial surface of the nasal cavity.
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20. The external and middle ears are involved in ______only
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21. Sensitivity for bitter substances is the highest.
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22. The organs of hearing and balance are divided into ______ parts.
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23. Deflection of the hairs toward the kinocilium results in depolarization of the____
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24. The eyeball is composed of _____layers.
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25. The brain interprets the higher frequency of action potentials as a ______________sound
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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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The ______________ muscle is attached to the malleus and is innervated by the trigeminal nerve (V).
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The oval window is approximately ____________ times smaller than the tympanic membrane.
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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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Olfactory neurons are ______ neurons with dendrites extending to the epithelial surface of the nasal cavity.
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When the taste cells depolarize, they release _____ that diffuse to sensory neurons associated with the taste cells.
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32. The brain interprets the higher _____ of action potentials as a louder sound.
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33. The inner ear contains the sensory organs for hearing and______.
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34. ______ is a complex process not simply confined to one type of input.
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35. The _____________collects sound waves and directs them into the external acoustic meatus.
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36. The higher the frequency is, the higher the pitch.
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The volume, or loudness, of sound is a function of wave amplitude, or height, measured in______________.
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38. _________ smell perception with no external stimulus
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______ is associated with the vestibule and is involved in evaluating the position of the head relative to gravity.
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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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41. The process of choosing certain types of food in preference to others is called_______
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42. Deflection of the hairs toward the ______ results in depolarization of the hair cell.
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43. Pitch is measured in ______________
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44. Light enters the eye through the _______
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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 _____ functions as two separate nerves carrying information from two separate but closely related structures.
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47. The sense of balance, or equilibrium, has two components: _____ and____
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48. The sclera is continuous with the_____, the anterior sixth of the eyeball.
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49. Rupture of the _____may result in hearing impairment.
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50. ______ enters the eye through the pupil
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