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10 Cards in this Set
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auricle and pinna
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visiable ear, collects sound waves
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cercumen
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ear wax, protects ear
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cochlea
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sprial shaped organ of hearing, contains a membranous tube, the cochlear duct-which is filled with fluid that vibrates when sound waves are transmitted by the stapes
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Eustachain tube
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ear to throat, equalizes pressure in middle ear
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external audiotory canal
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ear canal carries to the pinna to the tempanci membrane
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incus, malleus and stapes
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ear bones
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organ of corti
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delicate hairlike cells that pick up vibrations of fluid and transmit them as a sensory impulse along the auditory nerve to the brain
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pathway of hearing
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pinna-external auditory canal-typanic membrane-ossicles(mis)-cochlea-auditory nerve-brain
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semicircular canals
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3 structuresin inner ear that contain liquid set in motion by head and body movements
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tympanic membrane
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ear drum, seperates outer and middle ear
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