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Special Sensory Systems (Vision, Hearing, Vestibular) Crossword

Horizontales
The ossicle that is closest to the inner ear
The membrane that shears cilia on the hair cells to transduce sound to neural signals
The portion of the vestibulospinal tract that is responsible for stabilizing the head on the body
The component of the inner ear responsible for sound transduction
The central nervous system structure that regulates the gain of vestibular reflexes
First order neuron in the visual system
The type of neural organization where a specific frequency of sound is represented at a particular place on the cortex
The abbreviation for the reflex that stabilizes the body against gravity
The portion of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for pupillary constriction
The organ that contains the receptors for transducing sound to neural signals
Location on the retina where the optic nerve exits and there are no retinal receptors (2 words)
Object that focuses the images coming into the eye
The calcium carbonate crystals that sit on top of a membrane in the saccule and utricle
The type of visual field loss that occurs when the central region of the optic chiasm is damaged
A rhythmic repetitive eye movement characterized by fast and slow phases
The gelatinous mass that sits in the semi-circular canal and is bent by endolymph
The ossicle that is closest to the external ear
The sensory structure that sits in both otolithic organs
The type of acceleration that is sensed by the semi-circular canals
Second order neuron that goes from the retina to the lateral geniculate nucleus
Verticales
One of the 3 compartments of the inner ear (Scala) - the one that is filled with endolymph
Ringing in the ears
What the inner ear is filled with
The cortical lobe where the primary auditory cortex sits
The ridge in the skull where the inner ear sits
The membrane that separates the external ear from the middle ear
Type of muscles that change the shape of the lens
The type of reflex that occurs with convergence of the eyes and pupillary constriction
The longest hair cell
The abbreviation for the condition when the crystals from the otolithic organs are displaced and move within the semicircular canal
Loss of one half of the visual field
Center of the macula
The "disease" that is characterized by too much endolymph in the inner ear
The part of the external ear that functions like a parabolic antenna to direct sound waves into the external auditory meatus
Anatomic name of the cortical region where the third order neurons of the visual system terminate
The abbreviation for the reflex that stabilizes the eyes during head movement
How many cranial nerves that the vestibular system influences to move the eyes
High acuity retinal receptors - responsible for color vision
The otolithic organ that senses vertical linear acceleration
Lower acuity retinal receptors - responsible for lower light vision
The frequency of sound that is transduced on the proximal component of the basilar membrane
The swelling on one end of the semicircular canal where the sensory receptor sits
The membranous window that is a separation between the middle and inner ear (and that the inner most ossicle is imbedded in)
What the middle ear is filled with (when there is not an infection)