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Sound waves act on the eardrum, which drives a set of three tiny bones, of which the stirrup acts upon the Oval Window of the Cochlea, thus inducing pressure waves in the fluid of that organ. These waves move the signal hairs and thus their nerves which communicate with the brain.
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Why are sound waves are described as pressure waves?
Sound waves are described as pressure waves because waves produces pressure by which sound is produces
What vibrates in your ear before you hear sound?
Sound waves vibrate against your eardrum, hammer, anvil, stirrup, and cochlea.
How does longitudinal waves in the air produce longitudinal waves in the cochlear fluid of the inner ear?
The pressure wave in the air enters the ear canal and vibrates the tympanic membrane (the ear drum) the ear drum vibrates the malleus (hammer), the incus (anvil) and the stappes (stirrup) in the middle ear. These bonds vibrate the oval window (into the cochlea) and the oval window produces a pressure wave in the fluid in the inner ear.
Waves that disturb matter?
Sound waves, pressure waves, longitudinal waves.
What waves reach our ears?
Sound (pressure) waves.
What converts pressure waves in the cochlea into nerve impulses?
Oval window creates pressure waves in the cochlea
How do pressure waves in the cochlea lead to an action potential in the auditory nerve?
Temporal
How are the hair cells in the cochlea stimulated when the oval window is tapped by the stapes?
When the stapes taps on the oval window of the cochlea, it creates waves of pressure within the perilymph. The pressure waves within the perilymph are transferred to the basilar membrane of the organ of corti. The vibrations of the basilar membrane cause the attached hair cells to vibrate against the tectoral membrane. These vibrations are detected by the axons extending from the spiral ganglion in to the spiral lamina, and the impulses are sent to the brain via the cochlear nerve.
What structure in the ear converts sound waves into nerve impulses?
In general, the cochlea. More specifically, an impulse is carried into the brain along the auditory nerve when the tectorial membrane and the basilar membrane inside the cochlea are pressed together by the force of sound waves.
What is the medical term meaning Labyrinth disorder with elevated endolymph pressure in the cochlea?
Meniere's disease is the labyrinth disorder with elevated endolymph pressure in the cochlea.
Nerve fibers send an impulse to the brain when the waves reach the?
Cochlea.
Does the cochlea keep both sides of the eardrum equal?
No. The cochlea transmit sound from the eardrum. The Eustachian tubes keep the pressure inside the ear equalized with the external pressure.
Part of ear where cochlea converts waves?
That part is called as inner ear.
What does the Cochleae do?
the stirrup hits the cochlea and it sends waves through the liquid inside of it
What is another name for pressure wave?
"Tide" or a faster wave would be a "White cap"
What transmits sound waves to the inner ear making waves in the fluid in the cochlea?
The ossicles amplify the sound. They send the sound waves to the inner ear and into the fluid-filled hearing organ (cochlea). ... The auditory nerve sends these impulses to the brain. The brain then translates these electrical impulses as sound.
Pass through the cochlea and are transformed into nerve impulses and sent to the brain?
sound waves
