Symptoms usually appear from three days to a few weeks after the bite from an infected tsetse fly and may include: painful chancre (small ulcer) at the site of the infected tsetse fly bite; high fever; severe headache and muscle aches; rash; In rare cases, enlargement of the spleen, kidney problems, or heart problems can develop.
In medicine and anatomy, the special senses are the senses that have specialized organs devoted to them: vision (the eye) hearing and balance (the ear, which includes the auditory system and vestibular system) smell (the nose) taste (the tongue) The distinction between special and general senses is used to classify nerve fibers running to and from ...
Structures of the Ear. Special senses Function The two functions of the ear are to hear and to provide the sense of balance. The ear is made up of three parts: the external ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear, also called the labyrinth (Figure 13-1). We hear because sound waves vibrate through the ear where they are transformed into nerve impulses that are then carried to the brain. (Brooks 580) Brooks, Myrna LaFleur.