SPECIAL SENSES 11.

Localized pain is characterized by

- Sharp, rapid action potential
1. Which of the following senses
give information about the body 12. Diffuse pain is localized by:
and environment? - Burning, slow action potential
- Somatic senses
13. Which lobe in the cerebrum
2. Which of the following senses processes odor?
give information about the - Frontal lobe
organs?
- Visceral senses 14. Which accessory structure of the
eye produces tears?
3. Which of the following receptors - Lacrimal apparatus
detects pressure?
- Mechanoreceptors 15. Which ocular muscle is
innervated by CN IV?
4. Which of the following is an - Superior oblique
example of a photoreceptor?
- Rods 16. Which ocular muscle is
innervated by CN VI?
5. Which of the following is an - Lateral rectus
example of chemical receptors?
- Taste bud 17. The transparent part of the eye
that protects the iris and pupil
6. A type of receptor that localizes - Cornea
touch sensation
- Meissner’s corpuscle 18. The layer that contains blood
vessels
7. A type of receptor that detects - Middle tunic
light pressure
- Merkel’s disk 19. It controls the shape of the lens
through suspensory ligaments
8. A type of receptor that detects - Ciliary muscle
continuous pressure
- Ruffini corpuscle 20. It delivers oxygen to the retina
- Choroid

9. A type of receptor that detects 21. What happens to the pupil when
position there is a lot of light entering the
- Pacinian corpuscle eye?
- Constriction of pupils
10. Which receptor is associated with
joints
- Pacinian corpuscle
22. What happens to the pupil when 32. Cutting which structure causes
there’s little light entering the blindness in the temporal fields of
eye? the left and right eye?
- Dilation of pupils - Optic chiasm

23. Which structure in the nervous 33. Cutting which structure on the
tunic is responsible for right-side causes blindness in the
preventing the light from temporal field of the left eye and
reflecting back in the eye? the nasal field of the right eye?
- Pigmented retina - Optic tract

24. Which structure in the nervous 34. During impedance matching in

tunic contains rods and cones? the middle ear, the force needed
- Sensory retina to increase in propagating sound
to the oval window is brought on
25. Which structure is being used for by
night vision? - Ossicles and tympanic membrane
- Rods
35. The inner ear is composed of the
26. Which structure is being used for following structures
daytime vision? - Round window, utricle & saccule,
- Cones cochlea

27. Which structure provides color 36. The outer ear is composed of the
vision? following structures
- Cones - Tympanic membrane, auricle,
external auditory meatus
28. The structure that has the ability
to discriminate fine images 37. The middle ear is composed of
- Fovea centralis the following structures
- Auditory, ossicles, auditory tube,
29. The structure in the eye where oval window
there are no photoreceptors
- Optic disk 38. Which of the following is the
auditory osscile that is attached
30. Which of the following is not true to the lympanic membrane?
of the focal point? - Malleus
- It bends the light
39. Which of the following is true
31. Cutting which structure in the left - Cochlear duct contains
side causes total blindness in the endolymph
left eye?
- Optic nerve 40. Which of the following best
describes static equilibrium
- Evaluates changes in direction 4. The special nervous system in the
and rate of head movement gastrointestinal tract
- Enteric nervous system
41. Which of the following best
describes 5. Division of nervous system where
- Evaluates changes in direction it transmits action potentials from
and rate of head movement CNS to skeletal muscles
- Somatic nervous system
42. Which of the following best
describes otoliths? 6. Part of a neuron that receives
- Moves in response to gravity information from other neurons
and transmits the information to
43. Which of the following best the cell body
describes vestibule? - Dendrite
- Contains utricle and saccule
7. Which of the following is
44. Which of the following best incorrectly paired?
describes semicircular canals? - Unipolar neuron - has one
- Sense head movement dendrite and two cell bodies

45. Which of the following is true of 8. The major supporting cell in the
the hearing process CNS
- Sound travels to the tympanic - Astrocytes
membrane and is amplified by the
auditory ossicles 9. A type of glial cells that forms the
blood-brain barrier
- Astrocytes
NERVOUS
10. This cell produces the
1. CNS consist of the following cerebrospinal fluid
structures, excepts? - Ependymal cell
- Facial nerve and trigeminal nerve
11. The immune cells in the CNS
2. PNS consist of the following - Microglial cell
structures, except?
- Corpus callosum and substantia 12. The glial cell that provides myelin
nigra to axon in the PNS
- Schwann cell
3. Division of nervous system where
it transmits action potential from 13. The glial cell that provides myelin
CNS to the cardiac muscles to axons in the CNS
- Autonomic nervous system - Obligodendrocytes
14. An excellent insulator that 23. A junction where the axon of one
prevents almost all ion movement neuron interacts with another
across the cell membrane neuron
- Myelin sheath - Synapse

15. Term for the gaps in between 24. A simple pathway in which two or
myelin sheaths more neurons synapse with the
- Node of Ranvier same postsynaptic neuron
- Converging pathway
16. Which of the following is true of
the gray matter in the brain? 25. A simple pathway in which an
- Contains the cell body and their axon from one neuron divides and
dendrites synapses with more than one
other postsynaptic neuron
17. Which of the following is true of - Spatial summation
the white matter in the brain?
- Contains axons white myelin 26. Occurs when the local potentials
sheath originate from different locations
on the postsynaptic neuron
18. What is the resting membrane - Spatial summation
potential of a medium-sized
neuron? 27. Occurs when a local potentials
- -70 mV overlap in time
- Temporal summation
19. Which of the following is the type
of action potential conduction in 28. Which of the following is not true
an unmyelinated neuron? of the gray matter in the spinal
- Continuous conduction cord
- Located in the outer layer of
20. Which of the following is the type spinal cord
of action potential conduction in a
myelinated neuron? 29. Involuntary reaction in response
- Saltatory conduction to a stimulus applied to the
periphery and transmitted to the
21. The action potential in myelinated CNS
axons occurs in a jumping pattern - Reflex
at the node of Ranvier
- Saltatory conduction 30. Which of the following is not true
of the reflex arc components?
22. The diameter of the neuron is to - Motor receptor
the speed of action potential
conduction in a neuron 31. Which of the following is not true
- Directly proportional of spinal nerves?
- Arise along spinal cord from
dorsal roots and lateral roots

32. Which of the following is not true

of the cervical plexus
- Contains the median nerve

33. Which of the following is not true

of the brachial plexus?
- Originates from T2 to T5