Auditory Anatomy
Malleus, Incus, Stapes
What are the middle ear ossicles?
The sensory receptors of the vestibular system.
What are the cristae ampularis and macula?
This type of cochlear hair cell is innerated by 10 auditory nerve fibers.
What is the inner hair cell?
Cranial nerve VIII bifurcates t times before reaching the first nuclei in the auditory pathway.
What is the cochlear nucleus?
The area of the brain responsible for conscious thought.
What is the cerebral cortex?
A hearing loss that can often be medically treated.
What is conductive hearing loss?
The part of your body that collects sound.
What is your pinna?
These sensory receptors respond to linear acceleration.
What are the macula?
Outer hair cell ion channels are activated/opened by this motion.
What is the shearing of the tectorial membrane?
The first point of binaural input along the auditory pathway.
What is the superior olivary complex?
White matter in our cerebrum is.....
What is myelinated axons?
Babies born with some degree of hearing loss.
What is 3-4/1000?
The windows to your inner ear.
What are the oval window and round window?
The gelatinous membrane that covers the stereocilia in the macula.
What is the otolithic membrane?
The amplifier of the cochlea.
What are outer hair cells?
The efferent pathway that sends inhibitory information to the outer hair cells in the cochlea.
What is the Cortico-Cochlear; more specifically the olivocochlear system.
Visual and auditory sensors are this type of receptor.
What is teleceptor?
Two tests needed to determine the type of hearing loss.
What is air and bone conduction testing?
The "battery" of the inner ear produces and potassium needed in the endolymph.
What is the stria vascularis?
A line of demarcation on the macula.
What is the striola?
The battery of the inner ear.
What is the stria vascularis?
The last nuclei in the auditory pathway.
What is the medial geniculate body?
The glial cell that makes up the mylin sheath of the peripheral auditory pathway.
What is Schwann cells?
Objective measure used to test hair cell function.
What is otoacoustic emissions?
The center of the osseous cochlea.
What is the modiolus?
The reflex that maintains stable eye gaze while our body is in motion.
What is the visual ocular reflex?
Depolarization of the inner hair cells results in .....
What is glutamate release and excitation of the VIII nerve?
The area demonstrating tonotopic organziation in the temporal lobe.
What is Heschl's gyrus?
The 6th Lobe
What is the Functional lobe or Limbic System?
Low redundancy speech testing is used to diagnose this type of hearing loss/lesion.
What is retrocochlear/corical lesion?
Malleus
Which ossicle is connected to the tympanic membrane?
Cylindrical shaped hair cells.
What shape are type 2 vestibular hair cells?
Organ of Corti
What is the organ of hearing?
Acronym for the auditory pathway.
What is 8CSLIMA?
The category of receptor cells involved in the vestibular sense/system.
What is proprioceptor?
The test that produces a waveform reflecting nuclei along the auditory pathway.
What is auditory brainstem response?