Chapter 48 Key Terms

• p. 1076: stimulation, sensory receptor, transduction, transmission, mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, free nerve endings, exteroception
  
• p. 1077: interoception, stimulus-gated ion channels, generator potential (receptor potential), thermoreceptors, cold receptors, warm receptors
  
• p. 1078: nociceptors, phasic, tonic, hair follicle receptors, Meissner's corpuscles, Ruffini endings, touch dome endings (Merkel cells)
  
• p. 1079: Pacinian corpuscles
  
• p. 1080: muscle spindles, stretch receptors, proprioceptor, Golgi tendon organs, carotid sinus, aortic arch, baroreceptors, statocysts, saccule, utricle, hair cells, otoliths
  
• p. 1081: semicircular canals, ampullae (singular, ampulla), cupula, vestibular apparatus, lateral line organs
  
• p. 1082: taste buds, papillae (singular, papilla), olfaction
  
• p. 1084: peripheral chemoreceptors, central chemoreceptors, ear, tympanic membrane (eardrum), outer ear, middle ear, ossicles, malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), stapes (stirrup), oval window, chochlea, inner ear, Eustachian tube, cochlear duct, basilar membrane
  
• p. 1085: tectorial membrane, organ of Corti, resonance, resonant frequency
  
• p. 1086: attenuated, sonar
  
• p. 1087: eyespot
  
• p. 1088: cornea, lens, ciliary muscles, retina, iris, diaphragm, pupil, chromatic aberration
  
• p. 1089: rods, cones, fovea, inner segment, outer segment, photopigments, rhodopsin, opsin, cis-retinal, photopsins, dark current, all-trans retinal
  
• p. 1090: bleaching reaction, G proteins, phosphodiesterase, cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), bipolar cells, ganglion cells, horizontal cells, amacrine cells
  
• p. 1091: parallax, stereoscopic vision, infrared
  
• p. 1092: pit organs, electroplates
  
• p. 1093: ampullae of Lorenzini