Chapter 09

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Nervous System
Senses
 Chapter 9-Senses
• Sense:
ability to perceive stimuli

• Sensation:
conscious awareness of stimuli received by
sensory neurons

• Sensory receptors:
sensory nerve endings that respond to stimuli by
developing action potentials
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 Types of Senses
• General senses:
- receptors over large part of body
- somatic provide info. about body and env’t
- visceral provide info. about internal organs,
pain, pressure
- touch, pressure, pain, temp., and itch

• Special senses:
smell, taste, sight, hearing, and balance
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 Types of Receptors
• Mechanoreceptors:
- detect movement
- Ex. touch, pressure, vibration

• Chemoreceptors:
- detect chemicals
- Ex. Odors

• Photoreceptors:
detect light 5
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 • Thermoreceptors:
detect temp. changes

• Nociceptors:
detect pain

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Types of Touch Receptors
• Merkel’s disk:
detect light touch and pressure

• Hair follicle receptors:

detect light touch

• Meissner corpuscle:
- deep in epidermis
- localizing tactile sensations
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• Ruffini corpuscle:
- deep tactile receptors
- detects continuous pressure in skin

• Pacinian corpuscle:
- deepest receptors
- associated with tendons and joints
- detect deep pressure, vibration, position

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 Pain

• What is it?
unpleasant perceptual and emotional
experience

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 Types of Pain
• Localized:
- sharp, pricking, cutting pain
- rapid action potential

• Diffuse:
- burning, aching pain
- slower action potentials

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 Pain Control
• Local anesthesia:
- action potentials suppressed from pain
receptors in local areas
- chemicals are injected near sensory nerve

• General anesthesia:
- loss of consciousness
- chemicals affect reticular formation
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 Referred Pain
• What is it?
- originates in a region that is not source of pain
stimulus
- felt when internal organs are damaged or
inflamed
- sensory neurons from superficial area and
neurons of source pain converge onto same
ascending neurons of spinal cord

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 Olfaction
• What is it?
- sense of smell
- occurs in response to
odorants
- receptors are located
in nasal cavity and
hard palate
- we can detected
10,000 different smells
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Olfactory tract Olfactory nerves

Olfactory bulb
Olfaction Olfactory mucosa

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 How does olfaction work?
1. Nasal cavity contains a thin film of mucous where
odors become dissolved.
2. Olfactory neurons are located in mucous.
Dendrites of olfactory neurons are enlarged and
contain cilia.
3. Dendrites pick up odor, depolarize, and carry odor
to axons in olfactory bulb (cranial nerve I).
4. Frontal and temporal lobes process odor.

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 Figure 9.3b

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 Olfaction

Olfactory bulb Olfactory nerve

 Taste
• Taste buds:
- sensory structures that detect taste
- located on papillae on tongue, hard palate,
throat

• Inside each taste bud are 40 taste cells

• Each taste cell has taste hairs that extend into

taste pores
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Tongue
 Projection Pathway for Taste

Facial nerve Glossopharyngeal nerve Vagus nerve

CN VII CN IX CN X

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 How does taste work?
1. Taste buds pick up taste and send it to taste
cells.
2. Taste cells send taste to taste hairs.
3. Taste hairs contain receptors that initiate an
action potential which is carried to parietal
lobe.
4. Brain processes taste.

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 Types of Tastes
• Sweet
• Sour
• Salty
• Bitter
• Umami

• Certain taste buds are more sensitive to certain

tastes.

• Taste is also linked to smell.

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Sense of Sight

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Vision

Iris

Pupil
 Orbital Bones

Nasal Frontal Maxilla

Ethmoid
Sphenoid Zygomatic
Lacrimal
Palatine
 Vision
Extrinsic Eye Muscles

Inferior Superior Lateral Medial

rectus rectus rectus rectus

Inferior Superior
oblique oblique
 Vision

Eye ball Sclera Cornea

Pupil Lens Suspensory

ligaments
Levator palpebrae superioris m. Orbicularis oculi m.

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 Components of the Eye

Pupil Iris Cornea

Ciliary Suspensory
Lens
body ligaments

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 Optical Components

Ciliary
Cornea Lens body

Anterior Posterior Suspensory

compartment compartment ligaments

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 Vision
Accessory Structures
• Eyebrow:
- protects from sweat
- shade from sun

• Eyelid/Eyelashes:
- protects from foreign objects
- lubricates by blinking
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• Conjunctiva:
thin membrane that covers inner surface of
eyelid

• Lacrimal apparatus:
produces tears

• Extrinsic eye muscles:

help move eyeball
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 Figure 9.8

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Superior rectus m. Medial rectus m.
Extrinsic
Muscles of the
Eye
Lateral rectus m. Superior oblique m.

Inferior rectus m. Inferior oblique m.

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 Anatomy of Eye

• Hollow, fluid filled sphere

• Composed of 3 layers (tunics)

• Divided into chambers

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 Aqueous Humor
(Anterior & Posterior Chambers)

Anterior Chamber Posterior Chamber

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 Tunics of the Eyeball

Fibrous Vascular Nervous

(Cornea & Sclera) (Iris, Ciliary body, Choroid coat) (Retina)

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 Fibrous Tunic
• Outermost layer
• Sclera:
- firm, white outer part
- helps maintain eye shape, provides attachment
sites, protects internal structures

• Cornea:
- transparent structure that covers iris and pupil
- allows light to enter and focuses light
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 Cornea & Sclera

Cornea Sclera

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 Vascular Tunic
• Middle layer
• Contains blood supply
• Choroid:
- black part (melanin)
- delivers O2 and nutrients to retina
• Ciliary body:
helps hold lens in place
• Suspensory ligaments:
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Iris, Ciliary Body, & Choroid Coat

Iris

Ciliary body Choroid coat

Iris

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• Lens:
- flexible disk
- focuses light onto retina
• Iris:
- colored part
- surrounds and regulates pupil
• Pupil:
- regulates amount of light entering
- lots of light = constricted
- little light = dilated
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Iris

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 Iris and Pupil

Iris Pupil
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Cornea AnAnterior
chamber

Iris
Ciliary
body
Posterior
chamber

Lens
Suspensory
ligaments

Vitreous Sclera
humor

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Lens

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 Nervous Tunic
• Innermost tunic
• Retina:
- covers posterior 5/6 of eye
- contains 2 layers

• Pigmented retina:
- outer layer
- keeps light from reflecting back in eye

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Inner Tunic

Retina Vitreous Optic disc

humor

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 Neural Component

Optic nerve Optic disc Retina

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 Optic Nerve

Optic nerve Optic nerve (cut)

Ciliary ganglion Short ciliary neurons

(parasympathetic)
• Sensory retina:
- contains photoreceptors (rods and cones)
- contains interneurons
• Rods:
- photoreceptor sensitive to light
- 20 times more rods than cones
- can function in dim light
• Cones:
- photoreceptor provide color vision
- 3 types blue, green, red

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• Rhodopsin:
photosensitive pigment in rod cells

• Opsin:
colorless protein in rhodopsin

• Retinal:
- yellow pigment in rhodopsin
- requires vitamin A

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 Effects of Light on Rhodopsin
1. Light strikes rod cell
2. Retinal changes shape
3. Opsin changes shape
4. Retinal dissociates from opsin
5. Change rhodopsin shape stimulates response
in rod cell which results in vision
6. Retinal detaches from opsin
7. ATP required to reattach retinal to opsin and
return rhodopsin to original shape
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 Retina Structures Continued
• Rods and cones synapse with bipolar cells of
sensory retina
• Horizontal cells of retina modify output of
rods and cones
• Bipolar and horizontal cells synapse with
ganglion cells
• Ganglion cells axons’ converge to form optic
nerve

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Nervous Tunic (Retina)
• Innermost layer
• 2 parts of retina: sensory and pigmented
• Keeps light from reflecting back into eye

• Rods:
photoreceptors that detect amount light

• Cones:
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• Macula:
small spot near center of retina

• Fovea centralis:
- center of macula
- where light is focused when looking directly
at an object
- only cones
- ability to discriminate fine images

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• Optic disk:
- white spot medial to macula
- blood vessels enter eye and spread over retina
- axons exit as optic nerve
- no photoreceptors
- called blindspot

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 Chambers of Eye
• Anterior chamber:
- located between cornea and lens
- filled with aqueous humor (watery)
- aqueous humor helps maintain pressure, refracts
light, and provide nutrients to inner surface of
eye
• Posterior chamber:
- located behind anterior chamber
- contains aqueous humor
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• Vitreous chamber:
- located in retina region
- filled with vitreous humor: jelly-like substance
- vitreous humor helps maintain pressure, holds
lens and retina in place, refracts light

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 Functions of Eye
Light Refraction
Bending of light
• Focal point:
- point where light rays converge
- occurs anterior to retina
- object is inverted

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Focusing Images on Retina
• Accommodation:
- lens becomes less rounded and image can be
focused on retina
- enables eye to focus on images closer than
20 feet

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Near vision
Distant vision
Ciliary muscles in the
ciliary body contract, moving
Ciliary muscles in the
ciliary body toward lens.
ciliary body are relaxed.

Tension in suspensory Tension in suspensory

ligaments is high. ligaments is low.

FP
A FP

A
Lens flattened
Lens thickened

(a) (b)

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 Neuronal Pathway for Vision
• Optic nerve:
leaves eye and exits orbit through optic
foramen to enter cranial cavity

• Optic chiasm:
where 2 optic nerves connect

• Optic tracts:
route of ganglion axons
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 Optic Nerve

Optic nerve Optic chiasm Optic tract

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9.16b

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 Eye Defects
• Myopia:
- nearsightedness
- image is in front of retina
• Hyperopia:
- farsightedness
- image is behind retina
• Presbyopia:
- lens becomes less elastic
- reading glasses required
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 Clinical Focus 9A

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• Astigmatism:
- irregular curvature of lens
- glasses or contacts required to correct
• Colorblindness:
- absence or deficient cones
- primarily in males
• Glaucoma:
- increased pressure in eye
- can lead to blindness

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Hearing
 Hearing and Balance
External (Outer) Ear
• Extends from outside of head to eardrum
• Auricle:
fleshy part on outside
• External auditory meatus:
canal that leads to eardrum
• Tympanic membrane:
- eardrum
- thin membrane that separates external and
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 Hearing

Tympanic
Auricle membrane

External
Temporal auditory
bone canal
 Ear

Tympanic membrane Tympanic cavity

Cochlea
Vestibulocochlear nerve
Middle Ear
• Air filled chamber

• Malleus (hammer):
bone attached to tympanic membrane
• Incus (anvil):
bone that connects malleus to stapes
• Stapes (stirrup):
bone located at base of oval window
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 Auditory Ossicles
Middle Ear

Malleus Incus Stapes

Stapedius muscle
Tensor tympani muscle
Auditory tube Oval window
• Oval window:
separates middle and inner ear

• Eustachian or auditory tube:

- opens into pharynx
- equalizes air pressure between outside air
and middle ear

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Inner Ear
• Set of fluid filled chambers

• Bony labyrinth:
- tunnels filled with fluid
- 3 regions: cochlea, vestibule, semicircular
canals
• Membranous labyrinth:
- inside bony labyrinth
- filled with endolymph
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 Anatomy of Ear
Inner Ear

Semicircular
Utricle
ducts

Cochlea Vestibulocochlear nerve

• Endolymph:
clear fluid in membranous labyrinth

• Perilymph:
fluid between membranous and bony labyrinth

• Cochlea:
- snail-shell shaped structure
- where hearing takes place

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• Scala vestibuli:
- in cochlea
- filled with perilymph
• Scala tympani:
- in cochlea
- filled with perilymph
• Cochlea duct:
- in cochlea
- filled with endolymph

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• Spiral organ:
- in cochlear duct
- contains hair cells
• Tectorial membrane:
- in cochlea
- vibrates against hair cells
• Hair cells:
attached to sensory neurons that when bent
produce an action potential

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• Vestibular membrane:
wall of membranous labyrinth that lines scala
vestibuli

• Basilar membrane:
wall of membranous labyrinth that lines scala
tympani

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 How do we hear?
1. Sound travels in waves through air and is
funneled into ear by auricle.
2. Auricle through external auditory meatus to
tympanic membrane.
3. Tympanic membrane vibrates and sound is
amplified by malleus, incus, stapes which
transmit sound to oval window.
4. Oval window produces waves in perilymph of
cochlea.
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5. Vibrations of perilymph cause vestibular
membrane and endolymph to vibrate.
6. Endolymph cause displacement of basilar
membrane.
7. Movement of basilar membrane is detected by
hair hairs in spiral organ.
8. Hair cells become bent and cause action
potential is created.

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 Balance (Equilibrium)
• Static equilibrium:
- associated with vestibule
- evaluates position of head relative to gravity

• Dynamic equilibrium:
- associated with semicircular canals
- evaluates changes in direction and rate of head
movement

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• Vestibule:
- inner ear
- contains utricle and saccule
• Maculae:
- specialized patches of epithelium in utricle
and saccule surround by endolymph
- contain hair cells
• Otoliths:
- gelatinous substance that moves in response
to gravity
- attached to hair cell microvilli which initiate action
potentials
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• Semicircular canals:
- dynamic equil.
- sense movement if any direction
• Ampulla:
base of semicircular canal
• Crista ampullaris:
in ampulla
• Cupula:
- gelatinous mass
- contains microvilli
- float that is displaced by endolymph movement
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Vestibulocochlear Nerve
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