Photoreceptors - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Pathophysiology HSC203 Exam Questions And Answers sensory receptors/sense organs Classified into two categories: general senses and special senses. special senses include eye and ear What does special senses include?? Eye and Ear Sensory receptors can be classified by? location Extroreceptors near body surface, and sometimes referred to as cutaneous receptors Examples of extroreceptors touch, pressure, temperature, and pain Visceroceptors receptors that are locate...

What is it called when you get used to someone's strong perfume? Answer: Adaptation QUESTION Hormones that directly affect DNA within the nucleus of a cell? Answer: Steroidal based QUESTION Target tissues of growth hormone Answer: liver, adipose tissue, muscle tissue, bone and cartilage QUESTION Classes of photoreceptors found in the eye Answer: Short-wavelength cones (blue), medium-wavelength cones (green), long-wav...

Neuroscience EXAM 3– USA (Latest 2023/ 2024 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: Where does the light enter through? Answer: lens Q: Once light enters through the lens it goes to the what? Answer: retina Q: What is the central fixation for each eye w the highest visual acuity? Answer: fovea Q: This surrounds the fovea and also has a relatively high visual acuity? Answer: macula Q: This area is formed by axons le...

exteroreceptors 4 Correct Answer--sensitive to external stimuli -touch/ pressure -pain -temperature receptors interoreceptors (visceroceptors) Correct Answer--internal stimuli -mostly unaware consciously -internal chemical sensors, temperature -hunger, thirst, pain proprioceptors Correct Answer--internal, but located in muscle and joints -movement and position sensors what do mechanoreceptors do? what are they for? Correct Answer--generate nerve impulses when deformed -touch, pr...

Exam 1: NURS612/ NURS 612 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Advanced Health Assessment Guide| Qs & As| 100% Correct| Grade A- Maryville Q: How to test EOMs Answer: hold head still and ask the patient to follow the 6 cardinal fields of gaze, may have some horizontal rhythmic movements (nystagmic beats), but not excessive Q: if follow eyes on a horizontal plane and the eye moves rapidly to the right and slowly to the left what would it be called? and vice versa? Answer: nystagmus to...

BIOL 252 Exam 3 Questions And Answers All Correct A _________ with a __________Diameter carries electrical impulses the fastest Myelinated, Large The finger-like projections extending from the neuron's cell body that are most frequently the site of stimulation and formation of graded potentials are called Dendrites Sense When a stimulus activates its specific sensory receptor. Perceive The process of your brain interpreting all the stimuli at a given time​ Receptors ca...

ATI TEAS 7 SCIENCE / TEAS 7 SCIENCE EXAM phasic receptors ?- ANSWER-rapidly adapt to a constant stimulus and turn off, action potentials decrease over time. e.g include chemoreceptors Tonic receptors ?- ANSWER-adapt slowly, alerting CNS of the stimulus with action potentials. e.g include proprioreceptors, photoreceptors and nocireceptors FSH (follicle stimulating hormone)? - ANSWER-stimulated by GnRH, targets gonads, stimulates maturation of sperm cells and ovarian follicles LH (luteinizing ...

MBLEx Questions and Answers Already Passed What term describes the process where specialized cells engulf and digest harmful microorganisms and cellular debris, then expel the harmless remains back into the body? Phagocytosis What term refers to the back side of a structure? Posterior Which membrane lines passages that open to the exterior of the body? Mucous What is the term for something located above or closer to the head? Superior Which of the following mechanism...

Pathophysiology HSC203 Exam Questions And Answers sensory receptors/sense organs Classified into two categories: general senses and special senses. special senses include eye and ear What does special senses include?? Eye and Ear Sensory receptors can be classified by? location Extroreceptors near body surface, and sometimes referred to as cutaneous receptors Examples of extroreceptors touch, pressure, temperature, and pain Visceroceptors receptors that are locate...

CBNS 106 Final Exam Review Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Systems - ANSWERScircuits of neurons that interact to perform some function Neural Codes - ANSWERSfundamental concept, basically the activity of a neuron depends on the system it's a part of. ie. Action potential by neurons in the visual system yield perception of light Retina - ANSWERSmade of several thin layers back part of the eye where light hits 'inside-out' with photoreceptors farthest from light because all other cel...