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The ear is a physically complex sense organ, especially in mammals. Because some of the ear’s structure involves bones, much of the evolution of the ear can be followed through the fossil record. The ...

The cochlea houses the cell bodies of the cochlear nerve within a region called the spiral ganglion. Nerve cells (neurons) in ...

Welcome, class, to the fascinating subject of today’s lesson: the human ear. This big thing on the side of the head is called the outer ear. It’s shaped a bit like a funnel, which helps it ...

Everyone's got them, but that's a good thing, because they trap particles and push them, along with dead skin cells, out of your ear. Let's keep going. Do you see that yellow stuff? That's some ...

In order to reduce these reflections and maximize the transfer of sound energy from the air filled environment to the fluid filled inner ear, land animals evolved external ears as sound collectors and ...

The presence of two types of hair cells, the inner and outer hair cells, in the organ of Corti was appreciated ... ears revealed that the mechanical frequency selectivity in the living ear began to ...

For young grasshoppers to continue their growth and development and reach the adult stage, they must periodically molt or shed their outer skin (Fig. 11). Depending on species and sex, they molt four ...

When a mother brings a baby into the world, it should always be a joyous occasion. In developed nations like the United States, it usually is. But in developing countries, particularly in poor ...

Black holes, with their event horizons trapping anything that enters, and accretion disks glowing from accumulated matter, ...

So, how should you administer a cleaning solution? “Pull the pinna (external ear flap) up and out from the skull - this gives us a nice long curve rather than the L shape the ear canal generally ...