special senses

• sensory organs of smell

  • nasal cavity
  • Olfactory hairs +
  • olfactory receptors +
  • chemicals dissolved in the muscus
• olfactory neural pathway

  • Olfactory neve+
  • bundle of olfacotry receptor axons +
  • penetrate the cribriform plate +
  • enter the cranium +
  • synapse in the olfactory bulb in cerebrum
• Sensory organs of taste

  • taste buds
• structures of the eye 


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• structure of the external ear

  • ear canal
• structures of the middle ear

  • ear drum +
  • incus +
  • stapes+
  • malleus

  
• Inner ear structures

  • Cochlea +
  • semi circular canals +
  • vestibular nerve +
  • Eustachian tube
• passage of sound 


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