ANATOMY

GENERAL ANATOMY

NERVOUS SYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin are called your sense organs.
A
true
B
false
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -True. Sensory organs like eye, ears, nose, tongue, and skin receive particular kinds of stimuli with the help of special cells called receptors.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are five sense organs – eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nerves relay the signals to the brain, which interprets them as sight (vision), sound (hearing), smell (olfaction), taste (gustation), and touch (tactile perception).

Detailed explanation-4: -The skin is the body’s largest sensory organ and its sensory (or afferent) nerve receptors detect a number of different stimuli: mechanical, such as pressure or stretching; and thermal, in terms of heat and cold (Marieb, 2003).

Detailed explanation-5: -Humans have various sensory organs (i.e. eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth) that correspond to a respective visual system (sense of vision), auditory system (sense of hearing), somatosensory system (sense of touch), olfactory system (sense of smell), and gustatory system (sense of taste).

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