Physiological Basis Of Noise Flashcards
You need a _______ to catch the sound waves.
Receptacle
Sounds travels in _______ ______?
Physical energy
You have __ ears. _____ on each side.
Six, three.
The common name for an eat is ______. While the scientific name is _____.
Auricle , pinna
The ear is in the shape of a _____ ______.
Single helix
The outer ear has three main parts, the _____, the _____, and the _______.
Tragus, antetragus, lobe
The pinna has two major functions,
•_______
•____ _________ ___ _______ ________
Protection, and the gathering of sound waves.
When we speak, the air travels ____ and ____. This is because the air is ____ ______.
Out and up. Less dense as you go up.
Directly behind the Tragus, we have an opening called the ________ _______.
Auditory meatus. Or ear canal.
The auditory meatus has a ______ lining that we call ____ ____.
Muccosis. Ear wax.
The doctor will look inside your ear with a _______.
Otoscope
The doctor is checking for multiple things, name them:
Foreign objects Unusual growth Color- pink is healthy red is not. Eat drum to have perforations or holes. If light shines through it is healthy.
At the end of the auditory meatus, we have a translucent membrane on a bias. This membrane is called the _______ membrane.
Tympanic
The tympanic membrane is the dividing line of the _______ and ______ ear.
External and middle
You have three bones in your ear: ______ _______ ______
Malleus, incus, and stapes.
These three bones are called the ________. When they are connected they are called the _________ chain.
Ossicles. Ossicular.
The _____ bone is the smallest bone in the human body.
Stapes
The area where the three bones are located is called the _________.
Cacoon.
Leading up to the Cacoon from the inside is a tube called the ___________ tube.
Eustachian
The stapes bone can be damaged by an infection called _______ ________.
Rheumatic fever
The bottom part of the stapes is called the _________.
Pedestal
The membrane under the stapes is called the _____ ________.
Oval window.
The oval window is the dividing line between the ______ and ______ ears.
Middle and inner
The oval window is attached to the organ of the inner ear. Which is called the _________.
Cochlea
