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Special Senses
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Medical
11th Grade
02/26/2010

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Aqueous humor

Definition

 

clear watery fluid fills space between cornea and iris, curvature of eyeball and refracts light rays

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Auditory Canal

Definition

 

Tube where sound waves travel through to tympanic membrane

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Auricle

Definition

 

outter ear

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Choroid coat

Definition

 

middle layer of the eye, many blood vessels to nourish eye

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Cochlea

Definition

 

snail's shell structure with many delicate hairs

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Conjunctiva

Definition

 

mucous membrane of the eye lids and front of the eye, protection and lubrication

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Cornea

Definition

 

circular transparent front part of sclera, allows light rays to enter eye

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Eustachian tube

Definition

 

allows air to enter middle ear, equalize pressure on both sides of the tympanic membrane

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Iris

Definition

 

colored part of the eye, located behind cornea and in front of the choroid coat

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Lacrimal glands

Definition

 

produce tears, moisten and clean the eye

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Lens

Definition

 

circular structure located behind the pupil suspended by ligaments

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Organ of Corti

Definition

 

receptor of sound waves to the auditory nerve, carries impulses to temporal lobe of the cerebrum...hearing

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Ossicles

Definition

 

3 small bones MALLEUS, INCUS, STAPLES connected and transmit sound

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Pinna

Definition

 

or Auricle,

outter ear

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Pupil

Definition

 

opening in the center of the iris, 2 muscles thast control and regulate amount of light entering

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Refracts

Definition

 

bends light rays

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Retina

Definition

 

inner most layer of the eye/nerve cells, transmits light impulse to the optic nerve

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Sclera

Definition

 

outermost tough connective layer of the eye maintains the shape extrinsic muscles move the eye within the socket (white)

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Semicircular canals

Definition

 

located in inner ear canals contain liquid and delicate hair like cells that bend when the liquid moves in the head. balance and equalibrium

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Tympanic membrane

Definition

 

separates outter from middle ear, vibrate and transmits the sound wave to the middle ear

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Vestibule

Definition

 

1st section of oval window

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Vitreous humor

Definition

 

jellylike substance behind lens, shape and refraction

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