Hearing Mechanism 🔉👂🏻

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Hearing is a complex process that involves several anatomical structures and mechanisms. Here’s a brief overview of how we hear:

1. Sound Wave Collection
   Outer Ear: Sound waves enter through the pinna (the visible part of the ear) and travel through the ear canal to the eardrum.

1. Vibration Transmission
   Eardrum: When sound waves hit the eardrum, it vibrates.
   Middle Ear: These vibrations are transmitted to three tiny bones known as the ossicles (malleus, incus, and stapes). The ossicles amplify the sound vibrations.

2. Sound Wave Conversion
   Inner Ear: The stapes connects to the cochlea, a fluid-filled structure. The vibrations create waves in the cochlear fluid, causing the hair cells within the cochlea to move.

3. Signal Transmission
   Hair Cells: Movement of hair cells generates electrical signals. These signals are converted into nerve impulses.

1. Brain Interpretation
   Auditory Nerve: The nerve impulses travel through the auditory nerve to the brain.
   Brain Processing: The brain interprets these signals as sounds, allowing us to perceive and understand them.

Our ears are very sensitive organ of our body. It is as well to ensure the ear gets cleaned and avoid in contact witj sharp objects. And any complications, should seek the doctors first.

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Comments

[elizabethbit]

I suffer from tinnitus. I've not gone to an audiologist but that is on the docket in the near future. Just curious as to whether anything you've read in your research on the ear, says anything about that? From what I can gather, it is a misfiring of the nerves and not the structure of the ear. I never have total quiet. The tones and hissing I hear is non-stop. Only the clicking I hear is off and on. I would love to just for a little while, have total silence. Even at night, when I wake up, it's there, which tells me it's ongoing during sleep as well. From what I've read, there is no cure.

I would love to hear from you or anyone who reads this comment, on what they know about tinnitus.

Thank you for sharing and have a lovely day!

[kerrislravenhill]

Reminding me of my old Physiology classes.

We both know that we never put Q-tip swabs into the auditory canal. Removing earwax is usually done by flushing out the obstruction with lukewarm water by a syringe.
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[dipgold777]

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