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Auditory System: Byron Alfonso Pérez-Gutiérrez
Auditory System: Byron Alfonso Pérez-Gutiérrez
Auditory System
August 2018
Outline I
Ear (noun)
1 The characteristic vertebrate organ of hearing and equilibrium
consisting in the typical mammal of a sound-collecting outer
ear separated by the tympanic membrane from a
sound-transmitting middle ear that in turn is separated from a
sensory inner ear by membranous fenestrae.
2 any of various organs (as of a fish) capable of detecting
vibratory motion
Sound
Is a mechanical radiant energy transmitted by longitudinal pressure
waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of
hearing.
Sound is defined by its frequency (severe or acute) and by its
intensity (weak or strong).
Head bones
Ear anatomy
Middle ear
Neumatized cavity inside the temporal bone, responsible for the
transmission of sound through the tympanic membrane (eardrum)
and the oscicular chain.
Ossicles
Inner ear
Cochlea
It is a spiral-shaped cavity
in the bony labyrinth, in
humans making 2.5 turns
around its axis, the
modiolus.
Cochlea
Organ of Corti
Organ of Corti
Hair cells
Vestibular system
Is a bilateral structure
located in the inner ear,
and constitutes a bone
labyrinth excavated in the
temporal bone. This
labyrinth is formed by the
semicircular ducts, which
are closed on a central
body containing the
saccule and the utricle,
and which is continued
with the cochlea
Semicircular canals
Semicircular canals
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