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A = external
B = middle
C = inner

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What is the function of the cochlea?

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Hearing (auditory)

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What is the function of the semicircular canals?

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Balance (vestibular)

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What are the parts of the external ear?

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Auricle
External auditory meatus and canal
Lateral surface of the tympanic membrane (=hearing function)

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What is the tympanic membrane?

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Ear drum

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What is in the middle ear?

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Medial surface of the tympanic membrane

Tymalnkc cavity

Ossicles

Pharyngotympanic (eustachian/auditory) tube

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What are the ear ossicles?

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Tiny little works that transmit the sound energy to the middle ear

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What is the pharyngotympanic tube?

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Hearing function

Equalisation of pressure of the middle ear and nasopharynx

From the tympanic cavity to the nasopharynx

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Where is the auditory apparatus?

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Inner ear

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What is in the inner ear?

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Vestibular apparatus (semicircular canals)

Internal auditory meatus

Vestibule cochlear nerve (CNVIII)

oval window and round window (=hearing and balance function)

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What windows allow hearing and balance function and where are they found?

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Oval and round windows found in the inner ear

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A = ossicles
B = semicircular canals
C = cochlear
D = vestibular nerve
E = cochlear nerve

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Where do the vestibular and cochlear nerves go through?

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Internal auditory meatus to the brain

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Where does the ear sit?

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Petrous part of temporal bone

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Internal carotid artery and internal jugular vein

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What shapes receptor is the ear?

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Funnel-shaped receptor for aucoustic vibrations

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What is the external ear made from?

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Elastic cartilage and skin

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What muscles can move the ear?

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Muscles of facial expression

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What is the lymph drainage of the external ear?

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To parotid gland and cervical lymph nodes

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What is the blood supply to the external ear?

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Maxillary and superficial temporal, arteries

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What is the nerve supply to the external ear?

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Auriculotemporal (anterior) and Vagus (posterior)

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How long is the external auditory meatus?

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4cm long

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Where does the EAM funnel sound to?
Tympanic membrane
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What is in the lateral third of the EAM?
Elastic cartilage, hair follicles, sweat and sebaceous glands, ceruminous glands (wax)
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What is in the medial two-thirds of the EAM?
Bone lined with stratified squamous epithelium
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What way does the tympanic membrane dome?
Towards middle ear
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What is the dome shape of the tympanic membrane called?
Umbo
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What is the tissue on the lateral and medial aspects of the tympanic membrane?
Lateral = stratified squamous epithelium Medial = muscles membrane
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What is attached to the medial surface of the tympanic membrane?
Malleus
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What is the malleus a part of?
A bone of the Ossicles
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What is attached to the umbo here?
Malleus of the ossicles
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How does the tympanic membrane relay sound waves?
Infayes Intakes in response to sound waves and passes vibrations into the malleus to staples and round window…. Transmit sound waves to the inner ear
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What is the blood supply to the tympanic membrane?
Medial side = branches of the maxillary artery and Glossopharyngeal nerve Lateral = Auriculotemporal and vagus
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What is the roof of the middle ear?
Petrous temporal bone
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What is the anterior wall of the middle ear?
Auditory tube, tensor tympani muscle
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What is the posterior wall of the middle ear?
Aditus & Mastoid antrum (To the mastoid air cells) Pyramid below attaching stapedius muscle
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What pharyngeal arch does the stapedius muscle arise from?
2nd pharyngeal arch Facial nerve
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In the middle ear, where does the pyramid attach to?
Stapedius muslce
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What does the stapedius muscle attach to?
Stapes, prevent stapies overvibrating (Picture showing stapedius muscle)
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What supplies the stapedius muscle?
Facial nerve
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Stapedius muscle attaches to the pyramid which anchors it to the stapies bone. A = oval window B = rouund window C = stapes bone
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What is in the lateral wall?
Tympanic membrane Chondrite tympani Epitympanic recess for head of malleus and body of incus
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Epitympanic recess located in lateral wall of middle ear
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What is in the medial wall?
Oval and round windows Mainly formed by cochlea Promontory formed by the cochlea bulges for semi-circular and facial, canals
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What is the bulge from the cochlea called?
Promontory - middle ear
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What is in the floor of the middle ear?
Thin bony plate separating cavity from jugular foramen and carotid canal
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How does the mastoid antrum communicate with the middle ear?
Aditus
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How do the mastoid air cells develop?
Develop as diverticula from antrum
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Why can an infection spread from the mastoid air cells to the brain?
Separated by thin plates of bone Cerebellum, temporal lobe and sigmoid venous sinuses
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What joint is in the ossicles?
Synovial gliding joints
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A = malleus B = incus C = stapes
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Where does the stapes pass info from and to?
From the tympanic membrane to the oval window
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What muscle attaches to the malleus?
Tensor tympani Attaches to the hammer of the malleus
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What is the role of the tensor tympani attaching to the malleus?
Dampen the sound down The tympanic membrane is not over vibrating
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Middle ear/tympanic cavity
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What is the tensor tympani continuous with?
Eucatian tube Wraps around it and controls opening and closing of the tube
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What is the nerve supply to tensor tympani?
Mandibular division of trigeminal

BDS2.5 Anatomy (28 decks)

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