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How can sound cause hearing loss?
It can damage the eardrum as sound contains vibrations.
What is the the function of the outer ear?
The outer ear collects and funnels sound waves to the eardrum, where vibrations are carried into the middle ear.
Which structure is between the middle ear and the inner ear?
Sound waves hit the eardrum. The eardrum vibrates in response to the sound waves. These sound vibrations are amplified and transmitted by the auditory ossicles of the middle ear to the inner ear where they are changed into electrical energy and sent to the brain for interpretation.
How does sound travel to your ear?
sound is actually vibrations. your eardrum is highly sensitive, like ripples on water, it picks up these vibrations
What is the purpose of an eardrum?
Sound vibrations hit against it and then the waves are sent thru your ear, so that your brain can interpret the sounds. Without it, you wouldn't be able to hear!
What does sound travel through to reach your ears?
sound is actually vibrations. your eardrum is designed to pick up these vibrations that we call sound. kind of like when you have a glass of water on the table, and then drop something on the table, the glass of water picks up these vibrations and creates ripples.
What help to amplify sound vibrations from the eardrum to the oval window?
The vibrations are amplified by the three tiny bones from your middle ear.
What makes a sound and how do you hear it?
sound waves, your eardrum picks up these vibrations and transforms them into messages which your brain recieves
The malleus incus and stapers conduct vibrations from the eardrum to what?
The three auditory ossicles amplify and transmit sound vibrations from the tympanic membrane (eardrum) to the oval window, and thus into the fluid environment of the inner ear.
What the ear does?
The ear receives vibrations or sound waves in the air through the ear's opening and down the ear canal. These vibrations strike the eardrum, which then makes vibrations. These vibrations are passed to three bones in the middle ear and into the cochlea, which then translates the vibrations into sound.
Does the eardrum turn sound waves entering the ear into vibrations that moves the ossicles?
middle ear
What part of the ear receives vibrations directly from the eardrum?
Yes, the eardrum, or tympanic membrane, is where sound waves directly vibrate, transforming the energy of the sound waves into mechanical vibrations on the eardrum. These vibrations are then amplified by the three bones of the inner ear, the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil) and stapes (stirrup). Attached to the head of the stapes is the fluid filled cochlea which transforms the mechanical vibrations of the stapes into liquid, where the vibrations are then sensed by thousands of tiny cilia, or hair cells, which transduce the mechanical signal into a neurochemical one allowing the sound to be processed by the brain.
