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- maintains, protects, and supports the shape of the eye and includes the cornea
- provides oxygen and nourishment to the eye and includes the pupil, iris, and lens;
- allows us to piece images together and includes cones and rods.
- scotopic vision/night , shadows and light
- photopic vision, color vision
- gather sound energy and amplify sound pressure
- reflects and attenuates sound waves which help the brain the sound location
- transmits acoustic energy from ear canal to cochlea
- transform mechanical sound waves into electrical or neural signals for use in the brain.
- human ear can hear a wide variety of sound frequencies from and to
- send the information from the tastants to the brain, where a molecule is processed as a taste.
- humans can differentiate how many odors
- uses specialized receptor cells in the skin and body to detect changes in the environment.
- sense of pressure and texture, size and speed
- detects change in temperature
- detects pain
- detect joint position and movement, and the direction and velocity of the movement.
- sensory system that contributes to balance and the sense of spatial orientation.
- maintenance of a constant internal environment in response to a changing external environment
- hormones are made of
- to amplify the change
- the reaction to reverse the change of direction in a system.
- The regulatory systems actively defend specific values
- states arise in response to physiological needs and disappear again, usually with a sense of relief when those needs are met.
- ability to maintain body temperature through internal metabolic activity. examples are mammals and birds
- rely on external factors, such as basking in the sunlight or retreating to the shade below a rock, in maintaining ideal body temperature. examples are amphibian, reptiles and fish
- refers to the temperature maintained for vital organs within the head and torso
- Disturbances in the body's ability to maintain the average core temperature point can result in the (blank) experienced by nearly 80 percent of women in months or years surrounding menopause. It last seconds to minutes and a characterized by sweating, flushing, heart palpitations, and a subjective feeling of being very warm.
- If a solute break into ions and dissolves, it is known as an
- About (blank) of the body's water found within cells known as intracellular fluid.
- The remaining (blank) is in the extracellular fluid, into the blood supply
- The (blank) has higher concentrations of sodium and chloride, and (blank) has higher potassium concentrations.
- Blood enters the kidneys, filtered through a complex system made up of over a million structures known as
- results from muscle twitches, which can be so intense that teeth chatter together.
- blood vessel constriction is too extreme, leading to a condition known as (blank). This condition produces sudden spasms in arteries, particularly those in fingers and toes, in response to cold
- usually diagnosed in childhood or y hood and accounts for 5 to 10 percent of all diabetes diagnoses in the U
- diagnosed when individuals produce insulin, but their bodies either do not make enough insulin or use insulin efficiently-a condition known as insulin resistance
- occurs in response to cellular dehydration that results from drops in the intracellular fluid volume.
- occurs in response to drops in blood volume
- overdrinking, or (blank) that is typical of untreated diabetes mellitus.