"We had been studying the development and regeneration of the jawbones of fishes, and an inspiration for us was Stephen Jay ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Hearing loss is classified into three types: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed (when conductive and sensorineural hearing loss co-occur). Conductive ...

Ear infections are common, especially in children. Depending on the type of infection, treatment may involve antibiotics, pain relievers, and ear drops.

A research team led by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology scanned the skulls of Neandertals and found the small middle ear ossicles, which are important for hearing, ...

Age-related hearing loss is characterized by the progressive loss of the sensory hair cells of the inner ear, which are responsible for encoding sound into neural signals. 1,2 Unlike other cells ...

Laboratory test results were unremarkable. Magnetic resonance imaging of the middle ear revealed an irregular, focal, intensely contrast-enhanced lesion with features of diffusion limitation (Figure ...

The middle ear is a small air-filled cavity located behind the eardrum that contains tiny bones (ossicles) that vibrate in response to sound waves.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for Covid-19, can serve as a silent reservoir, lingering in the middle ear for up to a month after infection. OME is a collection of fluid in the middle ear that ...

Since delicate auditory ossicles are difficult to preserve as fossils, the direct fossil evidence of middle ear evolution is very limited among mammal ancestors closely related to human evolution.