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| ___ are perceived as sounds |
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| what are the airborne sounds funneled by? |
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| canal leading to the middle ear |
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| where does the external acoustic meatus end? |
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| tympanic membrane-which the air movements produce displacements of |
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| what is the middle ear also referred to as? |
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| an air-filled cavity containing the auditory ossicles[image][image] |
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| malleus incus and stapes-identify them |
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| what type of joints are between the malleus, incus and stapes |
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| what muscles of the tympanic cavity act upon the bones |
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| stapedius and tensor tympani[image][image] |
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| footplate of stapes fits into small opening called ______ _____ |
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| what is the middle ear connected to? |
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| what connects teh middle ear and the pharynx |
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| eustachian tube-responsible for teh equilization of pressure |
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| what is the inner ear often called? |
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| what surrounds teh membrane? |
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| what is within the perilymph |
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| a fluid similar to intracellular fluid |
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| AN ORGAN OF HEARING[image] |
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| what organ is within the cochlea |
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| organ of corti-receptors are located[image] |
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| transducer that converts vibrations into nerve impulses |
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| receptors are hair cells and their axons make up the ____nerve |
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