And it's all down to whether you can voluntarily contract a muscle called the tensor tympani. The tensor tympani is a tiny muscle located above the auditory tube in your inner ear that plays an ...

Its floor is formed by the osseous spiral lamina and the basilar membrane, which separate the cochlear duct from the scala tympani. Figure 1A. The ear has 3 parts. Conductive hearing loss usually ...

I’ve left the hospital and I’m resting at home, quarantained for four weeks. On the other hand, it is clear that my chorda tympani (the taste nerve that passes through the middle ear) has been ...

A deep learning–based reconstruction algorithm significantly enhances temporal bone UHR-CT image quality, reducing noise and ...

Here and throughout the album, the ensemble makes full use of timbres usually reserved for traditional classical music - French horns, bassoons, harp, tympani - to create lush valleys and soaring ...