Physiological Basis Of Noise Flashcards

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You need a _______ to catch the sound waves.

A

Receptacle

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Sounds travels in _______ ______?

A

Physical energy

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2
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You have __ ears. _____ on each side.

A

Six, three.

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3
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The common name for an eat is ______. While the scientific name is _____.

A

Auricle , pinna

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4
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The ear is in the shape of a _____ ______.

A

Single helix

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5
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The outer ear has three main parts, the _____, the _____, and the _______.

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Tragus, antetragus, lobe

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6
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The pinna has two major functions,
•_______
•____ _________ ___ _______ ________

A

Protection, and the gathering of sound waves.

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When we speak, the air travels ____ and ____. This is because the air is ____ ______.

A

Out and up. Less dense as you go up.

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Directly behind the Tragus, we have an opening called the ________ _______.

A

Auditory meatus. Or ear canal.

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9
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The auditory meatus has a ______ lining that we call ____ ____.

A

Muccosis. Ear wax.

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10
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The doctor will look inside your ear with a _______.

A

Otoscope

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11
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The doctor is checking for multiple things, name them:

A
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.
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At the end of the auditory meatus, we have a translucent membrane on a bias. This membrane is called the _______ membrane.

A

Tympanic

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The tympanic membrane is the dividing line of the _______ and ______ ear.

A

External and middle

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14
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You have three bones in your ear: ______ _______ ______

A

Malleus, incus, and stapes.

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15
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These three bones are called the ________. When they are connected they are called the _________ chain.

A

Ossicles. Ossicular.

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The _____ bone is the smallest bone in the human body.

A

Stapes

17
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The area where the three bones are located is called the _________.

A

Cacoon.

18
Q

Leading up to the Cacoon from the inside is a tube called the ___________ tube.

A

Eustachian

19
Q

The stapes bone can be damaged by an infection called _______ ________.

A

Rheumatic fever

20
Q

The bottom part of the stapes is called the _________.

A

Pedestal

21
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The membrane under the stapes is called the _____ ________.

A

Oval window.

22
Q

The oval window is the dividing line between the ______ and ______ ears.

A

Middle and inner

23
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The oval window is attached to the organ of the inner ear. Which is called the _________.

A

Cochlea

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Q

In the snail part of the cochlea there is a very ______ liquid called ________.

A

Viscuous, endolympth

25
Q

Inside the cochlea there are small hair-like projections lumped in groups of _____. Collectively they are the ___________ _____ ________.

A

Three

Organ of corti

26
Q

The sound waves vibrate into the ________ and transfers to the corti where all the ______ energy is transferred into _______ _________.

A

Cochlea
Physical energy
Electrical impulses