tunnel through temporal bone that funnels sound waves from auricle to tympanic membrane

• external auditory meatus

• pharyngotympanic tube

• semicircular canal

• vestibule

outermost part of ear; funnels sound to meatus; pinna

• auricle

• cochlea

• fovea

• stapes

inner ear structure involved in hearing

• auricle

• cochlea

• semicircular canals

• vestibule

second middle ear ossicle from eardrum; anvil

• incus

• malleus

• stapes

• auricle

first middle ear ossicle from eardrum; hammer

• auricle

• incus

• malleus

• stapes

third middle ear ossicle from eardrum; stapes

• auricle

• incus

• malleus

• stapes

inner ear part involved in equilibrium with vestibule

• auricle

• cochlea

• semicircular canal

• tympanic membrane

transmits vibrations to middle ear ossicles; eardrum

• auricle

• cochlea

• tympanic membrane

• vestibule

allows pressure to be equilized between outer and middle ear; more horizontal in children

• external auditory meatus

• pharyngotympanic tube

• semicircular canals

• vestibule

type of receptor for hearing and equilibrium

• chemoreceptor

• mechanoreceptor

• osmoreceptor

• photoreceptor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8