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Midterm anatomy Flashcards

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1
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Cartilage frame, helps funnel and localize sound, amplifies sound as it enters EAC

A

Pinna

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Concavities of Pinna

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Concha-Tragus
Triangular fossa
Scaphoid fossa

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3
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Convexities of Pinna

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Helix

Antihelix

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4
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Length of external auditory canal

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2.5 cm

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What part of external auditory canal is cartilage?

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Lateral 1/3

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6
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What part of external auditory canal is bony?

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Medial 2/3

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Skin of external auditory canal

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Cartilaginous portion- hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and ceruminous glands
Bony- thinner with no other structures

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Neural innervation of external auditory canal

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Trigeminal nerve
Greater auriculnar nerve
Auricular branch of Vegus
Facial nerve & chordo tympani

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Tympanic membrane characteristics

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Approx 9mm diameter, approx 140 degrees, attached to canal wall & malleus

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Layers of pars Tensa

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Lateral epidermal- continuous with EAC skin
Medial mucosal
Intermedial fibrous

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11
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Ossicular chain bones

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Malleus
Incus
Stapes

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Parts of malleus

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Manubrium-attaches to TM at umbo due to encircling by pars propria
Head & neck
Lateral process-adheres to pars propria of TM
Anterior process

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Parts of incus

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Body- articulates with head of malleus
Short process- anchors to posterior ligament
Long process- parallels manubrium
Lenticular process- articulates with stapes

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Parts of stapes

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Head- attaches to incus
Footplate- attaches to oval window by the annular ligament
2 crura- support the footplate to head

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Middle ear tegmen

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Serves as roof & floor to middle cranial fossa

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Floor of middle ear contains

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Jugular bulb & root of styloid process

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Anterior part of middle ear contains

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Internal carotid, ET orifice, tensor tympani

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Posterior part of middle ear contains

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Pyramidal eminence (Stapedius tendon)

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Medial part of middle ear contains

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Sinus tympani, oval & round window niches

20
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Eustacian tube

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Mucosal lined tube for ventilation of the ME

21
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Composition of ET

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Cartilaginous portion- anteromedial 2/3

Bony portion- lateral 1/3

22
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Oval window

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Membrane covering entry to cochlea

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Areal ratio

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With area of TM larger than that of the oval window there is at least a 20:1 ratio of pressure amplification

24
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Transduction in audition

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Sound pressure–> mechanical pressure–> hydromechanical pressure –> generation of electrical potential

25
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Scala vasculara of organ of Corti

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Provides nutrition

26
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How the organ of Corti works

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Reissner s membrane moves and displaces fluid

27
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What are the 2 types of hair cells

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Type 1 is globular, IHC

Type 2 is cylindrical, OHC

28
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What are the 2 types of afferents

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  1. Thicker, mylinated, IHC

2. Thinner, unmylinated, OHC

29
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Connections that join the HCs

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Cross row, between row, tip links

30
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Type 1 afferents

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Make up 95% of auditory system
Multiple neurons innervate single HC
Mylinated
Thickens after it leaves habenula perforata
Dendrites thin as they approach soma
31
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Small opening in the spiral lamina throug which dendrites of primary auditory system pass

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Habenula perforata

32
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Type 2 afferents

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Make up 5% of auditory system
Single neuron innervates multiple HCs
Most innervate first row of OHCs
Unmylinated
Thickens as it leaves habenula perforata
Dendrites thicken as they approach soma
33
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Tonotopic arrangement

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The basilar membrane is arranged from HF to LF, narrow and thinner to wider and thicker

34
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Movement of basilar membrane

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Envelope- traveling wave

35
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Ascending auditory pathway

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C SLIM C
Cochlea 
Superior Olivary complex 
Lateral Lemniscus 
Inferior Colliculus 
Medial Geniculate body 
Auditory cortex

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