EAR

Question 1

Types of deafness ?

Answer 1

Conductive
Sensorineural
Mixed

Question 2

What is conductive deafness ?

Answer 2

Sound cannot go through outer/middle ear

Question 3

What is sensorineural deafness ?

Answer 3

Deafness due to damage in inner ear

Question 4

Excessive fluid in inner ear leads to what condition ?

Answer 4

Meniers disease

Question 5

Which ear disorder causes episodes of vertigo?

Answer 5

Meniers disease

Question 6

Tumor on auditory nerve?

Answer 6

Acoustic neuroma

Question 7

Another name for vestibular schwannoma?

Answer 7

Acoustic neuroma

Question 8

Cholesteatoma

Answer 8

Abnormal cyst like growth with skin cells and connective tissue in the middle ear in association with the ear drum

Question 9

Cause of cholesteatoma

Answer 9

Due to repeated ear infection

Question 10

Otosclerosis

Answer 10

Hearing loss due to ear’s inability to amplify sound waves.
One of the ear bones become incapable to vibrate freely

Question 11

Ringing in ear

Answer 11

Tinnitus

Question 12

Cerumen impaction

Answer 12

Accumulation of cerumen
Buildup of earwax

Question 13

Labrynthitis

Answer 13

Inflammation of the inner ear
Otitis interna

Question 14

Otitis externa is also called as

Answer 14

Swimmers ear

Question 15

Otitis externa

Answer 15

Outer ear infection caused by h20

Question 16

Otitis media

Answer 16

Infection of middle ear

Question 17

Which type of otitis media may lead to hole in the tympanic membrane ?

Answer 17

Chronic supportive otitis media

Question 18

Parts of ear

Answer 18

External ear
Middle ear
Internal ear

Question 19

External ear is separated from middle ear by what?

Answer 19

Tympanic membrane

Question 20

Ear ossicles is connected to the nasopharynx through what?

Answer 20

Through the pharyngeal opening of the eustachian tube

Question 21

Function of semicircular canals?

Answer 21

Enable balance and eye tracking when moving

Question 22

What part of the inner ear controls balance and eye tracking while stationary ?

Answer 22

The utricle and saccule

Question 23

Function of cochlea?

Answer 23

Hearing

Question 24

3 ossicles are?

Answer 24

Malleus
Incus
Stapes

Question 25

Function of ossicles

Answer 25

Receive amplify and transmit sound from middle ear to inner ear

Question 26

Smallest bone in the body?

Answer 26

Stapes

Question 27

Tympanic membrane is connected to which ossicle ?

Answer 27

Malleus

Question 28

Glands in the ear canal?

Answer 28

Ceruminous gland Sebaceous gland

Question 29

What is the oval window in the ear?

Answer 29

Opening between end of middle ear to beginning of inner ear

Question 30

Function of endolymph in the ear?

Answer 30

Fluid through which vibrations travel from middle ear to inner ear and then transmitted to the cochlea

Question 31

Function of the labrynth?

Answer 31

Hearing and balance

Question 32

Parts of the inner ear?

Answer 32

Vestibule (balance) Cochlea (hearing) Semicircular canals (balance)

Question 33

Semicircular canals contain which fluid ?

Answer 33

Endolymph

Question 34

Cochlea contains which fluid ?

Answer 34

Endolymph and peri lymph

Question 35

What is organ of corti?

Answer 35

Where sound waves are converted to nerve impulses in the cochlea