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PHS 302 Special Senses

300 levelMedical & Health Sciences10 topics

PHS 302 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Structure and optics of the eye
  2. Accommodation and refractive errors
  3. Visual acuity
  4. Physiology of the retina
  5. Adaptation of vision and visual pathways
  6. Structure of the ear
  7. Transmission of sound and the cochlear mechanism
  8. Auditory pathways
  9. Vestibular function
  10. Taste and olfactory receptors and pathways

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Structure and optics of the eye

This topic covers the main anatomical parts of the eye and the optical principles that allow light to be focused on the retina. For exams, you must know the layers and chambers of the eye, the roles of the cornea, lens, aqueous humour and vitreous body, and how refraction and accommodation produce clear vision.

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