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Chapter 40, Problem 2FIB
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Ear provides the hearing ability to every individual. It contains three parts: the outer ear, inner ear, and middle ear. It also maintains the body temperature and body posture. It transfers sound waves in the form of nerve impulses to the brain and leads in the sensation of hearing and maintaining equilibrium.
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The sensory organ for hearing and equilibrium in the human is the ear. The outer ear consists of
the external pinna, as well as the auditory canal. Together, they collect sound waves and send
them to the tympanic membrane. This membrane, known as the ear drum, separates the outer
ear from the middle ear. In the middle ear, small bones (malleus, incus, and stapes) transmit
amplified vibrations through the oval window to fluid within the vestibular canal. The round
window of the tympanic canal serves as an escape valve for the pressure. The middle ear also
opens into the Eustachian tube to aid in equalizing pressure between the middle ear and the
atmosphere. The inner ear includes organs of equilibrium that sense the position of the body
with respect to gravity. It consists of fluid-filled chambers, including the semicircular canals,
as well as the bony cochlea that is involved in hearing. Hair cells in the organs of Corti in the
cochlea are the receptors for hearing that generate action…
The function of structure 4, the round window, is to _________.
bulge outward to give the fluid of the inner ear somewhere to go when the stapes pushes inward
transmit sound from the ear ossicles of the middle ear to the hair cells of the inner ear
amplify the sound wave as it is transmitted from the typanic membrane to the ear ossicles
prevent fluid in the middle ear from entering the inner ear while allowing sound transmission
Researchers have linked the release of airbags in cars to impaired hearing. When an airbag is
released, there is a rapid increase in air pressure, which can damage the inner ear.
Structures of the Human Ear
1 Ossicles
2 Cochlea
3 Auditory canal
4 Tympanic membrane
3. The sequence in which the highly compressed pressure waves created by the
an airbag travel through the structures of the human ear is
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