Medically reviewed by Sukaina Hasnie, MD The malleus is a hammer-shaped bone in the middle ear. It is also known as the ...

Earwax is your friend. A gooey and somewhat gross friend. Next and last stop, the middle ear. We are now looking at an actual eardrum. The eardrum's a thin piece of skin, and other tissues ...

In order to reduce these reflections and maximize the transfer of sound energy from the air filled environment to the fluid filled inner ear, land animals evolved external ears as sound collectors and ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

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The inner ear is divided into two fluid filled chambers - one inside the other. Figure 3 illustrates the basic organization of both the organs of hearing and balance. The fluid in the two chambers ...