Ear Vocab Flashcards
Auditory Canal
Channel that leads from the pinna to the eardrum
Auditory Meatus
Auditory Canal
Auditory nerve fibers
carry impluses from the inner ear to the brain (cerebral cortex). These fibers compose the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII)
Auditory Tube
Channel between the middle of ear to the nasopharynx ; Eustachian tube
Auricle
the protuding part of the external ear ; Pinna
Cerumen
Ear wax
Cochlea
small shell shapped spirally wound tube in the inner ear; contains hearing-sensitive receptors
Endolymph
fluid within the labyrinth of the inner ear
Eustachian tube
Auditory tube
Incus
second ossicle (small bone) of the middle of the ear
Labyrinth
maze-like series if canals of the iiner ear, this includes the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular Canals
Malleus
First Ossicle of middle of ear; malleus mean hammer
Organ of corti
sensitive auditory receptor area found in the cochlea of the inner ear
Ossicle
Small bone of the ear; Includes Malleus, Incus, Stapes
Oval window
membrane between the middle ear and inner ear