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anatomy chapter 13
Term | Definition |
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accommodation | an adaptation or adjustment especially of a bodily part (as an organ) |
chemoreceptors | a sense organ (as a taste bud) responding to chemical stimuli |
cochlea | a division of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear coiled into the form of a snail shell and consisting of a spiral canal in the petrous part of the temporal bone in which lies a smaller membranous spiral passage that communicates with the saccule at the b |
cornea | the transparent part of the coat of the eyeball that covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior |
equilibrium | |
eustachian tube | |
extrinsic eye muscles | |
general senses | |
hearing | |
intrinsic eye muscles | |
lacrimal apparatus | |
mechanoreceptors | |
nociceptors | |
olfactory receptors | |
optic receptors | |
ossicles | |
pain | |
perception | |
photoreceptors | |
pressure | |
proprioception | |
referred pain | |
refraction | |
retina | |
sclera | |
semicircular canals | |
sensation | |
smell | |
special senses | |
taste | |
temperature | |
thermoreceptors | |
touch | |
vestibule | |
vision | |
visual accessory organs | |
visual pathway |