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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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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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2. Food served at the wrong ______ is perceived as distasteful.
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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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4. _____ is the least understood of our senses.
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5. The fleshy part of the external ear on the outside of the head is called_____
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6. Each taste cell has several microvilli, called ______
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The volume, or loudness, of sound is a function of wave amplitude, or height, measured in______________.
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8. Food served at the wrong temperature is perceived as______.
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Swallowing, yawning, chewing, and holding the nose and mouth shut while gently trying to force air out of the lungs are methods used to open the______
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10. There are _____ semicircular canals placed at nearly right angles to one another.
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The inner ear consists of interconnecting, fluid-filled tunnels and chambers within the temporal bone called the______
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12. The binding of tastants to receptors on the taste hairs activates ______
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13. The ______ of the eye is so named because it contains most of the blood vessels of the eye
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14. The ______ interprets the higher frequency of action potentials as a louder sound.
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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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16. Deflection of the _____ toward the kinocilium results in depolarization of the hair cell.
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The stereocilia and kinocilium are embedded in the_____, which is a gelatinous mass weighted with crystals of calcium carbonate and protein called otoliths.
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18. Light enters the eye through 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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20. The middle ear contains three auditory ossicles: the malleus, incus, and_____________.
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21. The brain interprets the higher _____ of action potentials as a louder sound.
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22. _____ is a complete loss of smell
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The _____________s muscle is attached to the stapes and is innervated by the facial nerve (VII).
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24. Sounds louder than _____________ db are painful to the ear
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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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26. _________ smell perception with no external stimulus
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27. A slight oscillatory movement of the eyes, called _____ occurs.
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28. Sensitivity for bitter substances is the highest.
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The ______ consists of interconnecting, fluid-filled tunnels and chambers within the temporal bone called the bony labyrinth.
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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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31. The sensory cells of each taste bud consist of about 50______.
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32. The remaining two nonsensory cell types are basal cells and_____
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33. Deflection of the hairs toward the kinocilium results in depolarization of the____
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34. The ______________ is a thin membrane separating the external ear from the middle ear.
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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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The ______ ear is the part extending from the outside of the head to the tympanic membrane, or eardrum.
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37. ____ is distortion of perception of an external stimulus
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38. When an odorant binds to its receptor, a______associated with the receptor is activated.
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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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40. The cells of the taste buds each have a normal life span of about ______days.
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The ends of the dendrites are modified into bulbous enlargements with long specialised cilia called _______
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Olfactory neurons are bipolar neurons with _____ extending to the epithelial surface of the nasal cavity.
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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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44. The ______________ of sound is a function of the wave frequency.
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45. _____ of the hairs toward the kinocilium results in depolarization of the hair cell.
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46. ______ is the most common disease involving dizziness from the inner ear.
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Olfactory neurons are ______ neurons with dendrites extending to the epithelial surface of the nasal cavity.
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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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49. The auricle collects sound waves and directs them into the external_____________.
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50. ______ simply means that an animal will choose certain types of food in preference to others
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