RT Book, Section
A1 Mescher, Anthony L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1160663998
T1 The Eye & Ear: Special Sense Organs
T2 Junqueira’s Basic Histology: Text and Atlas, 15e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026177
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1160663998
RD 2024/04/16
AB Information  about  the  external  world  is  conveyed  to  the  central  nervous  system  (CNS)  from  sensory  receptors.  Chemoreceptive  cells  for  the  senses  of  taste  and  smell  were  discussed  with  the  digestive  and  respiratory  system  (see  Chapters  15  and  17,  respectively)  and  the  various  mechanoreceptors  that  mediate  the  sense  of  touch  were  presented  with  the  skin  (see  Chapter  18).  This  chapter  describes  the  eye,  both  its  photoreceptors  and  auxiliary  structures,  and  the  ear  that  mediates  the  senses  of  equilibrium  and  hearing  via  mechanoreceptors  in  the  vestibulocochlear  apparatus.