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Fusion or fixation of the auditory ossicles is primarily a congenital problem (you're born with it). However, it can be caused by other factors such as:
- old-age calicification of the ossicles
- scar tissue from repeated infections or trauma
- formation of bony overgrowths
- formation of spongy bone in the labyrinth
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What happens as you get older when the small ear bones get joined together?
When the small ear bones (ossicles) get joined together (otosclerosis), it can lead to conductive hearing loss. This condition restricts the movement of the ossicles, affecting the transmission of sound waves to the inner ear. Treatment options include hearing aids or surgery to replace the fused bones with prosthetic ones.
What is between the cochlea and the ossicles?
The last of the ossicles of the middle ear is the stapes. It delivers the sound vibrations to the oval window separating the air environment of the middle ear from the fluid environment of the inner ear. The inner ear contains the cochlea, vestibule and semicircular canal.
What is an incomplete osseous fusion?
An incomplete osseous fusion refers to a condition where bones fail to fully fuse together during development. This can result in incomplete or inadequate fusion of two or more bones, leading to structural abnormalities or functional limitations in the affected area. Treatment may involve monitoring, physical therapy, bracing, or surgery, depending on the severity and location of the incomplete fusion.
The associated bones of the skull include what?
The associated bones of the skull include the mandible (jawbone), hyoid bone, and auditory ossicles (malleus, incus, and stapes).
Are the ossicles located in the inner ear responsible for transmitting sound vibrations to the cochlea?
Yes, the ossicles located in the middle ear are responsible for transmitting sound vibrations from the eardrum to the cochlea in the inner ear.
Can conduction deafness result from the fusion of the ossicles?
Conduction deafness can occur anytime there is a disruption of the transmission and amplification of the sound vibrations by the auditory ossicles from the tympanic membrane to the oval window. This disruption can occur as trauma or a bony outgrowth to the ossicles themselves that would cause fusion or fixation of the ossicles.
What type of deafness can result from the fusion of the ossicles?
Conduction deafness can be a direct result of the fusion of any or all of the three ossicles of the middle ear. If the ossicles cannot transmit sound vibrations properly, then they will not be received by the oval window to be transmitted to the inner ear.
Can conduction deafness result from a lesion on the cochlear nerve?
Yes the result from a lesion on the cochlear nerve is sensorineural deafness. The result from the fusion of the ossicles is conduction deafness.
What is fusion of the ossicles?
Fusion or fixation of the ossicles is where one or more of the three auditory ossicles cannot transmit sound vibrations for a variety of reasons. This does cause "conduction" deafness or hearing loss.
How is hearing loss related to the ossicles?
If there is a change to the basic structure or functioning ability of your auditory ossicles, this would result in Conductive Deafness as the ossicles will not be able to transmit and amplify the sound vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the oval window.
Is the incus the laying down of new bone in the middle ear?
The incus is the middle three of the auditory ossicles (little bones) of the middle ear.The laying down of new bone in the middle ear causes fusion or fixation of the ossicles which leads to Conductive Deafness.
What bony plates make up starfish skeleton?
It is the ossicles :)
Atomic bombs are the result of what nuclear reaction?
fission and/or fusion
What was a result of Albert Einstein's studies on fusion?
The Atom bomb.
What are ambulacral ossicles?
In a starfish, the ambulacral ossicles are little calcified bony plates covering the radial canal.
What is the result of plasmogamy?
Plasmogamy is the fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.
Would you still have to remove the fusion monsters as a result of fusion gate if you have imperial iron wall?
If Imperial Iron Wall is in play you can't activate the effect of fusion gate at all.
