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| Part of the ear with receptive cells lying within fluid filled sacs and ducts. It is made of semicircular ducts, utriculus, and sacculus and it related to ones sense of equilibrium. |
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| Parts of the ear that gather and amplify the airborne sound waves sufficiently and generate pressure waves in the cochlear liquid |
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| Large flap of the ear that gathers and focuses sound waves on the eardrum |
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| The canal extending ventrally and medially from the base of the auricle to the eardrum to tympanic membrane |
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| Another name for the eardrum; it separates the external ear from the middle ear |
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| Large cavity of the middle ear |
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| Three small bones that transmit movements of the tympanic membrane to the inner ear |
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| Tube that opens into the nasal pharynx. It is also called the Eustachian tube. It permits the equalization of pressure on each side of the tympanic membrane |
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| The names of the three auditory ossicles. They help carry sound |
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| The oval window in the wall of the tympanic cavity |
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| A round window ventral and posterior to the fenestra vestibule. It is where the pressure waves are released back into the tympanic cavity |
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| Spiral part of the inner ear of mammals |
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