Auditory Flashcards
Contains vestibulocochlear organ
EAR
Consists of 3 main parts which are
External Middle Interana
collects sounds
Auricle
conducts sounds
to tympanic memb
External acoustic meatus
Shell like part
Consists of single elastic cartilage which is continuous w/ cartilage of ext acoustic meatus
Auricle
True or false: The Auricle Contains hair,sweat/sebaceous glands
Shape varies
True
no cartilage, can be pierced for earring
Lobule`
Auditory passage
Extends fr concha to tympanic membr[TM]
External Acoustic Meatus
S shaped, 2.5 cm long
External Acoustic Meatus
Composition of external meatus
Lateral/3 = cartilage -Medial 2/3 = bony
True or fasle
Infants= pure cartilage
True
COmposiion of Lateralpart of Meatus
Hair follicles
Sebaceous gl
Ceruminous gl
Lined w/ thin skin and Isthmus
Medial parts
Consricted part of medial external meatus
Isthmus
Arterial supply of ear
1] Post auricular branch of external carotid artery
2] Deep auricular branch of
maxillary artery
3] Auricular br of superficial temporal artery
Venous drainage ofe Aer
1] External jugular vein
2] Maxillary vein
3] Pterygoid plexus
NErveSupply
1] Auriculotempral n fr CN V
2] Tympanic plexus fr CN VII
3] Auricular branch fr CN X
How is Meatus directed?
Directed anteriorly and medially
When doing otoscopy, how do you examine the ear?
Pull the ear
Superiorly
Posteriorly
Laterally
Thin, semitransparent,oval membrane
Medial end of EAM
Tympanic Membrane
Separates external from middle ear
Oblique and slopes inferomedially
Pearly gray and shiny
Tympanic Membrane
Central depression of meatus formed by handleof Malleus
, umbo
What is the bright are that emanates in umbo?
cone of light
True or false:
The Tympanic Membrane does not move in response to air vibrations that pass to it
Vibrations are transmitted from TM by auditory ossicles through the middle ear to internal ear
false
Moves in response to air vibrations that pass to it
Vibrations are transmitted from TM by auditory ossicles through the middle ear to internal ear
Arterial Supply of Tympanic Membrane
Maxillary artery
Deep auricular a
Posterior auricular a
Tympanic branch
Venous Drainage of tympanic
External jugular vein
Nerve supplyof tympanic
Auriculotemporal n [CN V3]
Possible etiology of Perforation of Tympanic Membrane leadinf to deafness
Foreign Bodies
> Infection
> Excessive Pressure as in scuba diving
Middle ear
Narrow cavity in petrous part of temporal bone
Contents of middle ear
Auditory ossiscles
Stapedius
Tensor tympani
Chorda tympani
Anterior and Posterior connection of middle ear
Anterior: Nasopharynx
Posterosuperior: mastoid antrum
What are the walls of middle ear
- Roof or Tegmental
- Floor or Jugular
- Lateral or Membranous
- Medial or Labyrinthine
- Posterior or Mastoid
- Interior or Carotid wall
Roof or Tegmental is formed by?
- formed by tegmen tympani
- separates ME fr dura
Floor or Jugular is fromed by?
- formed by bone
- sep ME fr int jugular vein
wall of mid ear formed by tymp membr
Lateral or Membranous
where Semicircular ducts and cochlea are found
-sep ME from inner ear
Medial or Labyrinthine
2 small window of labyrinthe
Fenestra vestibuli
Fenestra cochlea
window closed by base of stapes
-through this window, vibrations of stapes are transmitted to inner ear
Fenestra vestibuli
- closed by a secondary TM
- allows perilymph to move in response to impulses
Fenestra cochlea
2 openings w/c connects which connect carotid with;;
1] w/ canal occupied by tensor tympani
2] w/ nasopharynx thru auditory tube
leads to mastoid antrum via an opening, aditus
-pyramidal eminence
MAstoid wall or posterior wall of Tm
Funnel shaped
Connects NP to middle ear
Auditory Tube
Size and composition of auditory tube
3.5 to 4.0 cm long
1/3 bone, 2/3 cartilage
Functions to Equalize pressure in middle ear w/ ATM pressure
Audiroty Tube
Arterrial Supple of Auditory tube
1]Ascending pharyngeal a
2]middle meningeal art
3] artery of pterygoid canal
Venous drainage of Auditory tube
Pterygoid plexus
innervated by Tympanic plexus[CN VII and IX]
Auditory tube
Ear bones
Form a chain across middle ear
From TM to oval window
Auditory ossicle
True or F of Auditory Tube:
Function:Decrease the force but increaseamplitude of vibrations transmitted fr TM
False
Function: Increase the force but decrease amplitude of vibrations transmitted fr TM
The ossicles
1] MALLEUS
2] INCUS
3] STAPES