KROK 1 2018 – Question 125 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
Vestibular receptors of semicircular canals of a test animal have been destroyed. What reflexes will disappear as a result?
- A. Statokinetic reflex during movements with angular acceleration
- B. Primary orienting reflex
- C. Statokinetic reflex during movements with linear acceleration
- D. Head-righting reflex
- E. Body-righting reflex
Hint
Recall what kind of head motion semicircular canal receptors are specialised to detect, and which different organ handles other kinds of stimulus.
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