Vestibular System

Question 1

How is the vestibular system similar to the auditory system?

Answer 1

Mechanoreceptors and hair cells

Question 2

Which cranial nerve is the vestibular nerve?

Answer 2

VIII

Question 3

What is cranial nerve VIII?

Answer 3

Vestibular

Question 4

What does the movement of fluid?

Answer 4

Plane of motion

Question 5

What does the saccule do?

Answer 5

Detect gravity

Question 6

What does the utricle do?

Answer 6

Detects acceleration in a plane

Question 7

What codes the vestibular system connect with?

Answer 7

Occulomotor uncle and extra ocular muscle

Question 8

What occurs when vestibular hair cells are displaced towards the kinocilium?

Answer 8

Ion channels are opened