Anatomy Special Senses Review

Common type of papillae that contains taste buds

• fungiform

• tears

• lacrimal

• olfactory bulb

Brain area that receives smell impulses

• olfactory bulb

• cones

• tears

• lacrimal

Which of the following is NOT true about the eyes?

• responds to light stimuli

• it floats in the bony orbit

• a hollow sphere filled with fluid

• contains 70% of all sensory receptors

The transparent mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and covers most of the

• cornea

• sclera

• conjunctiva

• retina

The iris controls the size of the

• pupil

• retina

• sclera

• cones

Sound waves entering the external auditory canal hit the

            eardrum, also known as the

• semicircular canals

• cochlea

• papillae

• tympanic membrane

Dynamic equilibrium receptors are located in the

• semicircular canals

• cochlea

• papillae

• tympanic membrane

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The cornea

• helps protect the eye

• begins bending light to make an image

• both of the above

• none of the above

The vitreous humor is

• gel like and gives the eyeball its shape

• watery and gives the eyeball its shape

The blind spot is created by the

• retina

• optic nerve leaving the eye through the retina

• nothing; we don't have one