Outer Ear/Middle ear
What is the pinna?
This means that the system is organized by frequency.
What is tonotopic?
This substance can cause conductive hearing loss when it builds up.
What is cerumen?
This is when fluid or pressure builds up behind the eardrum.
What is otitis media?
This type of hearing loss occurs in the inner ear or above.
What is sensorineural?
This is the medical terminology for the ear canal.
What is the external auditory meatus?
This general structure made up of the cochlear nucleus, superior olivary complex, lateral lemniscus, inferior colliculus, and medical geniculate body.
What is the brainstem?
This is when there is an infection in the ear canal (3 words).
This is when a whole is created in the eardrum due to extreme pressure.
What is barotrauma?
This type of hearing loss is preventable with hearing protection.
What is noise induced hearing loss?
These are the three bones in the middle ear.
What are the malleus, incus, stapes?
These structures move and help us hear soft and average speech.
What are outer hair cells?
This is when someone has a smaller pinna.
What is microtia?
This is when debris builds up and creates a benign tumor.
What is a cholesteatoma?
This type of hearing loss is due to aging.
The ear canal has this shape to protect the eardrum from being punctured.
What is an "s" shape?
These structures turn the signal into an electrical signal that is sent to the vestibulocochlear nerve.
What are inner hair cells?
This is the type of hearing loss someone gets when it occurs in the outer or middle ear.
What is conductive hearing loss?
This is when bone grows over the stapes.
These types of drugs can cause hearing loss.
What are ototoxic drugs?
This muscle tenses when you hear a loud sound.
What is the stapedius muscle?
This structure sits on top of the outer and inner hair cells and helps them move.
What is the tectorial membrane?
What is anotia?
This is when the bones disconnect due to trauma.
What is otosclerosis?
This condition causes vertigo, roaring tinnitus, pressure, fullness, and/or fluctuating hearing loss?
What is Meniere's disease?