Next and last stop, the middle ear. We are now looking at an actual ... When sound waves hit the eardrum, it vibrates and moves the ossicles, which are the three tiniest most delicate bones ...

Use of the chinchilla as a model of middle ear infection in auditory research necessitates accessing the middle ear to collect samples or inoculate bacteria. This column describes a simple ...

The middle ear has an eardrum and three bones known as ossicles – the malleus, incus and stapes. Sound waves collected by the external auditory canal cause the eardrum to vibrate, which is then ...

This structure transmits sound vibrations, similar to the way the three tiny bones (ossicles) in the human middle ear function. The middle ear plays a key role in filtering background noise ...