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Ear Vocab Flashcards

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Auditory Canal

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Channel that leads from the pinna to the eardrum

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Auditory Meatus

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Auditory Canal

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Auditory nerve fibers

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carry impluses from the inner ear to the brain (cerebral cortex). These fibers compose the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII)

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Auditory Tube

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Channel between the middle of ear to the nasopharynx ; Eustachian tube

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Auricle

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the protuding part of the external ear ; Pinna

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Cerumen

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Ear wax

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Cochlea

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small shell shapped spirally wound tube in the inner ear; contains hearing-sensitive receptors

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Endolymph

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fluid within the labyrinth of the inner ear

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Eustachian tube

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Auditory tube

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Incus

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second ossicle (small bone) of the middle of the ear

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Labyrinth

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maze-like series if canals of the iiner ear, this includes the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular Canals

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Malleus

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First Ossicle of middle of ear; malleus mean hammer

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Organ of corti

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sensitive auditory receptor area found in the cochlea of the inner ear

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Ossicle

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Small bone of the ear; Includes Malleus, Incus, Stapes

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Oval window

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membrane between the middle ear and inner ear

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Perilymph

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fluid contained in the labyrinth of the inner ear.

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Semicircular canals

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passages in the inner ear associated with maintaining equilibrium

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Pinna

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auricle; flap of ear

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Stapes

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Third ossicle of the middle ear. stapes means stirrup

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Tympanic membrane

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membrane between the outter and middle ear; also called Eardrum

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Vestibule

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Central cavity of the labyrinth, connecting the semicircular canals and the cochlea. the vestibule conatins two structures Saccule and Utricle , help main equilibrium

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