20 Questions
What is the function of a mechanoreceptor?
They sense physicial stimuli, including pressure, vibration, sound and gravity.
Visceral senses:
Both A & C
Which of the following is not a major somatosensory modality?
Proprioception
Which of the following is not somewhere you would expect to find nociceptors?
Central nervous system
When might you experience hyperalgesia?
After a papercut
The headache in forehead and behind the eyes sometimes felt when eating ice cream, also known as “brain freeze”, involves referred pain along what cranial nerve?
The trigeminal (5th) cranial nerve
Which of the following steps in defining the activation of a reflex is incorrect?
Sensory information activates a receptor that sends information to the PNS via an afferent neuron
Which of the following components of the eye is responsible for focusing light on the back of the eye?
Retina
Which of the following muscles helps the eye rotate to look down?
Inferior rectus
Which of the following is associated with an image formed on the retina?
Cones convey information regarding the color of the object
The anterior fibrous tunic of the sclera is highly modified to form a transparent area of the eye known as the:
Cornea
Where is the retina located in the eye?
The posterior aspect of the eye
Which part of the ear consists of a space spanned by three small bones?
Middle ear
The receptors for static and dynamic equilibrium are located in the:
semicircular canals and vestibule
Which structure of the mouth is most associated with taste?
Tongue
Axons from the three cranial nerves carrying taste information travel first to which brain structure?
Medulla
Collectively the axons that pass through the cribriform plate are called the:
olfactory nerve
What is anosmia?
Loss of the sense of smell
Which structure contains the primary motor cortex?
precentral gyrus of the frontal lobe
Meninges are found:
associated with the CNS
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