Attentiveness- The Ear

Laura O.
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  1. auricle
    a pouch projecting from an atrium of the heart
  2. hammer
    the ossicle attached to the eardrum
  3. oval window
    fenestra that has the base of the stapes attached to it
  4. cochlea
    the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
  5. optic nerve
    the cranial nerve that serves the retina
  6. audiometer
    an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing
  7. conductive hearing loss
    hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear
  8. stethoscope
    a medical instrument for listening to sounds inside the body
  9. finger spelling
    an alphabet of manual signs
  10. auditory canal
    either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
  11. anvil
    the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
  12. Eustachian tube
    either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum
  13. semicircular canal
    one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium
  14. earwax
    a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal
  15. audiogram
    a graph of a person's sensitivity to sound
  16. nerve deafness
    hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve
  17. ear trumpet
    a conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person
  18. deaf-mute
    a deaf person who is unable to speak
  19. otoscope
    a medical instrument for examining the ear
  20. eardrum
    the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
  21. stirrup
    the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
  22. round window
    fenestra leading into the cochlea
  23. balance
    a state of equilibrium
  24. hearing
    the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
  25. deaf
    people who have hearing impairments
  26. lipreading
    perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips
  27. speaking tube
    a tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another
  28. sign language
    language expressed by visible hand gestures
Created on Tue Sep 03 14:25:24 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Sep 03 14:36:03 EDT 2013)

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