Shown are the auditory system and diseases affecting each component of the system, including the ossicular chain of the middle ear, the cochlea, the organ of Corti and hair cells, and the auditory ...

Scientists find the greatest number of small ear ossicles known from Neandertals so far and compare them to the ossicles of modern humans The three bones of the middle ear (hammer, anvil, stapes) make ...

Complications associated with a retained foreign object in the external auditory canal may include ... and on rare occasions, ossicular disruption with hearing loss and vertigo.

2 The auditory activation of the tensor tympani ... contracts by pulling the stapes posteriorly, which stiffens the ossicular chain and moves the stapes away from the oval window.