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 ...

These are located in the middle of our ears. They are about 3 millimetres in size. They are present in both ears. The ...

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 ...