Saturday, 10 September 2011

Note on "mechanical" middle and "neural" inner ear.



1. The middle ear is "mechanical" (basically three bones passing sound
waves to the inner ear) and its workings can be blocked by gunk.
2. The inner ear takes these sound waves and pass them along fluid,
inside the spiral shaped cochlear. Tiny hairs convert these movement to electric impulses and fire to the brain. So the inner ear is "neural" . The inner ear also has "semi circular canals" which control balance.  So inner ear trouble typical involves both hearing and balance issues.

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