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Day 28 Sense Organ and Its Function

The document discusses the five human senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It describes the sensory organs and receptors involved in each sense, and how sensory stimuli are processed by the brain. The main sensory organs are the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. The document provides information on the structure and function of these organs, as well as interesting facts about human sensory abilities.

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Day 28 Sense Organ and Its Function

The document discusses the five human senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It describes the sensory organs and receptors involved in each sense, and how sensory stimuli are processed by the brain. The main sensory organs are the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. The document provides information on the structure and function of these organs, as well as interesting facts about human sensory abilities.

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GOOD DAY!!



PRAISED BE JESUS AND MARY!!


SENSE ORGANS
AND THEIR
FUNCTIONS
WHAT MAKES OUR
SENSES
ESSENTIAL?
SENSE ability to perceive stimuli

GENERAL SPECIAL
SENSES SENSES
distributed all localized to specific
over the body parts of the body

SIGHT

SMELL
SOMATIC VISCERAL
SENSES SENSES TASTE

Provide information Provide information HEARING


about body and about various internal
environment organ BALANCE
TYPES OF SENSORY RECEPTORS

RECEPTOR TYPE STIMULUS LOCATION

PHOTORECEPTOR LIGHT EYES

MECHANORECEPTOR MOVEMENT, PRESSURE,


SKIN, EARS
TENSION

CHEMORECEPTOR CHEMICALS TONGUE, NOSE


SKIN,
THERMORECEPTO TEMPERATURE CHANGE HYPOTHALAMUS
R
ALL TISSUES AND
PAIN RECEPTOR TISSUE DAMAGE
ORGANS
DIVISIONS OF CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE

 OCCIPITAL LOBE

 PARIETAL LOBE

 TEMPORAL LOBE

 FRONTAL LOBE
PROCESSING SITES AND LOBES OF THE BRAIN
VISION: THE SENSE
OF SIGHT
EYES
- known to be “windows
to the world”
- specialized to focus on
light rays in order to
produce images of objects
- also called “eyeball”

 All the visual messages are interpreted


by the brain’s visual center located at the
back of our brain.
FACTS ABOUT EYES
STRUCTURE OF THE EYE
STRUCTURE OF THE EYE

SCLERA
- the outermost protective layer
- the white part of the eye

CORNEA
- allows light rays to enter the eye
- where the sclera becomes transparent and
colorless
STRUCTURE OF THE EYE
AQUEOUS HUMOR
- watery solution that helps bend the light that enters
the eye and maintains pressure inside it

TWO DIVISIONS OF AQUEOUS HUMOR:

ANTERIOR CHAMBER
- located between the cornea and the iris

POSTERIOR CHAMBER
- located between the iris and the lens
STRUCTURE OF THE EYE
IRIS
- circular, colored part of the eye that gives our eyes
their color
PUPIL
- small opening right through the middle of the iris
- regulates the amount of light that enters through its
opening

LENS
- located behind iris which focuses the light rays
coming into the eye by constantly adjusting its
shape depending on the distance of the object in
front of the eye
STRUCTURE OF THE EYE
VITREOUS HUMOR
- transparent, jellylike fluid that gives the eyeball its
roundish shape
- refracts or bends light toward the very back of the
eyeball, where retina lies
RETINA
- eye’s innermost layer of tissue containing more
than
130 million light – sensitive photoreceptors called
rods and cones
RODS most active in dim light

CONES responsible for color vision


A JOURNEY THROUGH THE EYES
THE SENSE OF
HEARING AND
BALANCE
 Hearing begins when some of the
sound waves enter the external ear.

> the part that we can touch


> made mostly of cartilage covered
with skin
 The cartilage is strong enough to
support weight, yet flexible enough to
be bent or twisted.
HOW THE HUMAN EAR WORKS
 Sound waves pass through the ear canal to the ear
drum, which is a tightly stretched membrane that
separates the ear canal from the middle ear.
 Vibrations from eardrum enters the middle ear, where
the three smallest bones in the body are found.

HAMMER
ANVIL
STIRRUP
The vibrations are then picked up by the
mechanoreceptors in the inner ear’s snail – shaped
tube called the cochlea.
contains nerves that are
stimulated by vibrations
SEMICIRCULAR CANALS
- located within the inner ear, just above the
cochlea
- responsible for the sense of balance
- filled with fluid and lined with tiny hairlike
cells
 During rotational head movement, the fluid within the
semicircular canals of the inner ear also moves and
is detected by the hairlike cells, causing them to
bend.
the hairlike cells then respond to by sending
nerve impulses to the cerebellum of the
brain
HOW WELL CAN YOU HEAR?
THE SENSE OF
SMELL AND TASTE
OLFACTORY CELLS
- the sense receptors in the nose
- react to invisible stimuli carried by the air

 The smell receptors produce nerve


impulses that are carried to the brain,
where they are interpreted. The brain then
determines the scent.
A scent smelled before can easily be
recalled by the brain because the
information has been stored in memory.
OLFACTION SENSE OF SMELL
CHEMORECEPTORS
- taste receptors located in the taste buds on the
tongue

BASIC KINDS OF TASTE

> SWEET
> SOUR
> BITTER
> SALTY
elicited by amino acid
> UMAMI named glutamate
THE FIVE SENSES: SENSE OF TASTE
CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR TONGUE
THE SENSE OF
TOUCH
 The sense of touch is found in all areas of the body,
making the skin the largest sense organ.
TYPES OF RECEPTORS
TOUCH RECEPTORS
- allows one to feel the textures of objects by lightly
touching them with fingers
PRESSURE RECEPTORS
- being triggered when you press a finger hard on an
object
HEAT AND COLD RECEPTORS
- respond to heat and cold
PAIN RECEPTORS
- cause discomfort due to pain they cause
- alert the body of danger
THE FIVE SENSES: SENSE OF TOUCH
SHOCKING FACTS ABOUT YOUR SKIN
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT YOUR SKIN

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