Special Senses and Eye Anatomy Overview
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What are the five special senses?

  • Touch, taste, sight, hearing, balance
  • Smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing
  • Smell, touch, sight, hearing, balance
  • Smell, taste, sight, hearing, balance (correct)

    • The eyes contain 70% of all sensory receptors in the body.

    True

    Which of the following is NOT an accessory structure of the eye?

  • Conjunctiva
  • Extrinsic eye muscles
  • Eyelids
  • Retina (correct)

    • What is the function of the conjunctival membrane?

    <p>The conjunctiva is a mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and the front of the eyeball. It helps to lubricate and protect the eye from foreign particles</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do lacrimal glands produce?

    <p>Lacrimal glands produce tears, which are a watery fluid that lubricates and protects the eye</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the extrinsic eye muscles?

    <p>To produce gross eye movements</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a layer of the eyeball?

    <p>Conjunctiva layer</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the cornea?

    <p>The cornea is the transparent, central anterior portion of the fibrous layer. It allows light to pass through and helps to focus the image on the retina.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following structures regulates the amount of light entering the eye?

    <p>Iris</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two types of photoreceptor cells in the retina?

    <p>The two types of photoreceptor cells in the retina are rods and cones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where is the optic disc located in the eye, and why is it referred to as the blind spot?

    <p>The optic disc is located where the optic nerve leaves the eyeball. It is referred to as the blind spot because there are no photoreceptor cells in this area, so light that falls here cannot be detected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The fovea centralis is an area of the retina that contains only rods.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the lens in the eye?

    <p>The lens is a flexible, biconvex structure that helps to focus light rays onto the retina.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the aqueous humor?

    <p>To provide nourishment to the lens and cornea</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of an ophthalmoscope?

    <p>To examine the inside of the eyeball</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a type of refractive error?

    <p>Color blindness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the reflex that causes the eyes to move medially when focusing on a close object?

    <p>Convergence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The photopupillary reflex causes the pupils to dilate in bright light.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the reflex that causes pupils to constrict when focusing on a close object?

    <p>Accommodation pupillary reflex</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a part of the ear?

    <p>Olfactory bulb</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of sensory receptors are found in the ear?

    <p>Mechanoreceptors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the tympanic membrane?

    <p>The tympanic membrane, also known as the eardrum, is a thin membrane that separates the external ear from the middle ear. It vibrates in response to sound waves, transmitting those vibrations to the ossicles in the middle ear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT an auditory ossicle?

    <p>Cochlea</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the pharyngotympanic tube?

    <p>The pharyngotympanic tube, also known as the Eustachian tube, connects the middle ear cavity to the throat. It helps to equalize pressure between the middle ear and the atmosphere, which is crucial for the proper functioning of the tympanic membrane.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between perilymph and endolymph?

    <p>Perilymph is a fluid that fills the bony labyrinth of the inner ear, while endolymph is a fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth. Both fluids play important roles in transmitting sound vibrations and maintaining equilibrium.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a part of the bony labyrinth?

    <p>Spiral organ of Corti</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The vestibular apparatus is responsible for the sense of hearing.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the maculae?

    <p>The maculae are sensory receptors located within the utricle and saccule of the vestibule. They are responsible for detecting static equilibrium, which refers to the sense of head position relative to gravity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the otoliths?

    <p>Otoliths are tiny, calcium carbonate crystals that are embedded in the otolithic membrane of the maculae. When the head moves or tilts, the otoliths move relative to the hair cells, sending signals to the brain about our head position.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where are the crista ampullaris located?

    <p>The crista ampullaris are sensory receptors located within the ampullae (enlarged chambers) of the semicircular canals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a type of deafness?

    <p>Myopia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Sensorineural deafness can be caused by damage to the auditory nerve.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a type of taste bud?

    <p>Olfactory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Taste buds are constantly replaced by new ones.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a basic taste sensation?

    <p>Spicy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the sense of umami?

    <p>The taste of umami is a savory, brothy, or meaty flavor. It is typically associated with foods that contain high levels of glutamate, an amino acid that is commonly found in protein-rich foods, such as meat, cheese, and mushrooms. The sense of umami likely evolved as a way to help humans identify protein-rich foods, which are essential for survival.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Special senses are formed early during prenatal development.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can maternal infections during the first 5 or 6 weeks of pregnancy cause?

    <p>Maternal infections during the first 5 or 6 weeks of pregnancy can cause visual abnormalities and sensorineural deafness in the developing child.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Newborn infants have excellent color vision.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is presbyopia?

    <p>Presbyopia is a condition that occurs with aging, causing a gradual loss of the lens's elasticity. This makes it difficult for the lens to change shape to focus on close objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Otosclerosis is a type of conduction deafness.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Smell and taste become less acute as we age.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Special Senses Overview

    • Special senses include smell, taste, sight, hearing, and equilibrium
    • Special sense receptors are large, complex sensory organs or localized clusters of receptors

    The Eye and Vision

    • 70% of all sensory receptors are in the eyes
    • Each eye has over 1 million nerve fibers carrying information to the brain

    Anatomy of the Eye: Accessory Structures

    • Extrinsic eye muscles: Six muscles, attached to the outer surface of the eye, controlling gross eye movements
    • Eyelids: Meet at the medial and lateral commissure (canthus), protecting the eye
    • Eyelashes: Prevent foreign particles from entering the eye
    • Tarsal glands: Produce oily secretions lubricating the eye
    • Ciliary glands: Located between eyelashes
    • Conjunctiva: Membrane lining the eyelids and eyeball, connecting with the cornea and secreting mucus to keep the eye moist
    • Lacrimal apparatus: Lacrimal gland (produces tears) and associated ducts. Tears drain across the eye, the lacrimal canaliculi, the lacrimal sac, and into the nasolacrimal duct, emptying into the nasal cavity. Tears contain dilute salt solution, mucus, antibodies, and lysozyme (bacteria-destroying enzyme).

    Internal Structures: The Eyeball

    • Fibrous layer: Sclera (white connective tissue layer) and Cornea (transparent, central anterior part allowing light passage, easily repairs itself)
    • Vascular layer: Choroid (blood-rich nutritive layer), Ciliary body (smooth muscle structures), and Iris (pigmented layer controlling light entering the pupil). The pupil is a rounded opening in the iris.
    • Sensory layer: Retina (outer pigmented layer absorbing light and preventing scattering, and inner neural layer with receptor cells, Rods (gray scale vision in dim light), and Cones (color vision, concentrated in the fovea centralis)). The optic disc (blind spot) is where the optic nerve exits the eyeball.
    • Humors: Aqueous humor (clear, watery fluid anterior to the lens, maintains intraocular pressure,) and Vitreous humor (gel-like substance posterior to the lens, prevents collapsing).
    • Lens: Flexible, biconvex crystal-like structure, held in place by a suspensory ligament attached to the ciliary body
    • Ophthalmoscope: Instrument illuminating the interior of the eyeball, detecting various eye conditions.

    Physiology of Vision

    • Pathway of light through the eye: Light is bent (refracted) by the cornea, aqueous humor, lens, and vitreous humor. The eye is set for distant vision (over 20ft) and must change shape (accommodation) to focus on close objects (less than 20ft).
    • Real images formed on retina: Reversed left-to-right and upside down, smaller than the object.
    • Visual fields and pathways: Optic nerve (bundle of axons carrying impulses from retina), optic chiasma (location where optic nerves cross), optic tracts (contain fibers from lateral side of same eye and medial side of opposite eye, synapses with neurons in thalamus), optic radiation (axons from thalamus, synapse with cortical cells in occipital lobe), optic cortex (visual interpretation occurs).
    • Visual fields and binocular vision: Each eye sees a slightly different view, but field of view overlaps, resulting in binocular vision (depth perception).
    • Eye reflexes: Convergence (reflexive movement of eyes medially to focus on near objects), Photopupillary reflex (bright light causing pupils to constrict), Accommodation pupillary reflex (viewing close objects causing pupils to constrict).
    • Eye conditions: Emmetropia (normal vision), Myopia (nearsightedness, eyeball is too long, distant objects are blurry), Hyperopia (farsightedness, eyeball is too short, near objects are blurry), Astigmatism (light focuses as lines not points due to unequal curvature of cornea/lens, blurry images)

    The Ear: Hearing and Balance

    • Ear houses hearing and equilibrium (balance)
    • Receptors are mechanoreceptors
    • Different organs house receptors for each sense

    Anatomy of the Ear

    • Three areas: External (outer) ear, Middle ear, Internal (inner) ear
    • External ear: Auricle (pinna), External acoustic meatus (auditory canal), Tympanic membrane (eardrum).
    • Middle ear: Middle ear cavity (air-filled, mucosa-lined), Pharyngotympanic tube (auditory tube, equalizes pressure), Auditory ossicles (malleus, incus, stapes, transmit vibrations from eardrum to the inner ear).
    • Internal ear: Bony labyrinth (osseous labyrinth, cochlea, vestibule, semicircular canals, filled with perilymph), Membranous labyrinth (suspended in perilymph, contains endolymph)

    Equilibrium

    • Vestibular apparatus: Equilibrium receptors in the inner ear, consisting of static and dynamic equilibrium components.
    • Static equilibrium: Maculae (receptors in vestibule) report on head position, help maintain head erectness, send info via vestibular nerve to cerebellum.
    • Dynamic equilibrium: Crista ampullaris (receptors in ampulla of each semicircular canal). Cupula (gelatinous cap) drags against endolymph during head movements, stimulating hair cells, impulses travel to vestibular nerve and cerebellum.

    Hearing

    • Spiral organ of Corti (located in cochlear duct): Hair cells on the basilar membrane, gel-like tectorial membrane bending cells when basilar membrane vibrates, impulses carried to auditory cortex on temporal lobe via cochlear nerve.
    • Pathway of vibrations from sound waves: Vibrations move through ossicles to oval window, amplified, causing pressure waves in the basilar membrane and bending hair cells, generating action potentials. High-pitched sounds disturb short, stiff basilar membrane hairs; low-pitched sound disturb long, floppy basilar membrane hairs.
    • Hearing and equilibrium deficits: Deafness (any degree of hearing loss), Conduction deafness (transmission of vibrations impaired), Sensorineural deafness (damage to ear/nervous system), Ménière's syndrome (inner ear problem causing deafness and vertigo).

    Chemical Senses: Smell and Taste

    • Receptors for smell and taste are chemoreceptors, responding to chemicals in solution
    • Smell can differentiate wider range of chemicals than taste, both complementing each other in response to many same stimuli.
    • Olfactory receptors: Located in the roof of the nasal cavity, detect chemicals dissolved in mucus by olfactory hairs (cilia of neurons), impulses are transmitted to olfactory cortex via olfactory nerve (cranial nerve I). Smell is interpreted in olfactory cortex.
    • Taste buds: Receptor organs in taste papillae, on tongue, soft palate, and superior part of pharynx, cheeks. Gustatory cells (taste receptors) possess gustatory hairs. Impulses carried to gustatory complex by several cranial nerves (facial, glossopharyngeal, vagus). Taste buds are replaced by basal cells.
    • Basic taste sensations: Sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami.

    Developmental Aspects of Special Senses

    • Special sense organs form early in embryonic development
    • Maternal infections during first 5-6 weeks of pregnancy can cause visual abnormalities and sensorineural deafness.
    • Vision requires learning; infants have poor visual acuity, farsightedness, lack color vision, lack depth perception. Eyes continue growing and maturing until age 8-9. Age-related eye issues (Presbyopia, decreased lens elasticity, difficulty with close-vision, lens discoloration, Constricted pupils).
    • Hearing is present at birth, but responses are reflexive. Critical listening and language imitation develop during toddler stage. Age-related issues (Presbycusis, otosclerosis). Taste and smell are acute at birth, but sensitivity decreases after age 40.

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