Tuesday, 2 February 2016

HEARING


- Sound waves enter  the ear and they travel through the external auditory canal.

-The waves strike the eardrum, the central part of the eardrum is conected to a  small bone called  malleus, the malleus  vibrates and transmits the sounds to the other two bones:

- The incus and stapes.Stapes  moves and pushes to the oval window

-The sound passes to the cochlea wich is a structure in the shape of a snail.

- Inside of the cochlea there is the spiral organ of corti.
This organ has hair cells. Sensory nerves take the sounds vibrations and carry them to the brain.






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