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Auditory analizator.

Ear is the organ of hearing. Ear can be divided on 3 parts:

  1. external ear:

  • auricle - collects sound waves;

  • external auditory meatus: conducts sound waves from auricle to tympanic membrane;

  1. middle ear (tympanic cavity):

  • tympanic membrane: forms lateral wall of tympanic cavity; circular and concave from outside; point of maximum concavity is called umbo, where handle of malleus is attached;

  • contents: air, auditory ossicles, tensor, tympani muscle and stapedius muscle;

  • windows: there are 2 windows in medial wall to tympanic cavity, round window and oval window.

  1. internal ear:

  • cochlea;

  • vestibular apparatus.

Auditory ossicles:

  • malleus;

  • incus;

  • stapes.

Arrangements:

  • handle of malleus is attached to umbo of tympanic membrane;

  • other end of malleus is bound to incus by ligaments;

  • opposite end of incus articulates with stem of stapes;

  • foot plate of stapes lies against membraneous labyrinth in oval window, where sound waves are conducted into cochlea.

Functions:

Auditory ossicles increase pressure exerted by sound waves on fluid of cochlea. Thus, provide impedance matching between sound waves in air and sound vibrations in fluid of cochlea.

Muscles of ossicles:

  1. Tensor tympani - pulls handle of malleus inward, thus, keeps tympanic membrane tenses.

  2. Stapedius – pulls stapes out from oval window.

Eustachial tube – is a tube connecting middle ear cavity with pharynx.

Function: equilizes pressure on either side of tympanic membrane.

Hearing – is the sense by which sounds are perceived.

Sound - is effect produced on organ of hearing by vibrations of air molecules. Sound doesn’t travel through vacuum. The unit of sound intensity is decibel.

Noise – is a disturbing sound.

How sound is heard

Ear receives sound waves, discriminates their freaquencies, and finally transmits auditory information onto the central nervous system where its meaning is deciphered.

Conduction of sound from the tympanic membrane to the cochlea

Tympanic membrane and the ossicular system, which conducts sound through the middle ear. The tympanic membrane is cone-shaped, with its concavity facing downward and outward toward the auditory channel. Attached to the very center of the tympanic membrane is the handle of the malleus. And its other end the malleus is tightly bound to the incus by ligaments so that whenever the malleus moves the incus moves with it. The opposite end of the incus in turn articulates with the stem of the stapes, and the footplate of the stapes lies against the membranous labyrinth in the opening of the oval window where sound waves are conducted into the inner ear, the cochlea.

The ossicles of the middle ear are suspended by ligaments in such a way that the combined malleus and incus act as a single lever having its fulcrum approximately at the border of the tympanic membrane. The large head of the malleus, which is on the opposite side of the fulcrum from the handle, almost exactly balances the other end of the lever. The articulation of the incus with the stapes causes the stapes to push forward on the cochlea fluid every time the handle of the malleus moves inward and to pull backward on the fluid every time the malleus moves outward, which promotes inward and outward motion of the footplate at the oval window.

The handle of the malleus is constantly pulled inward by the tensor tympani muscle, which keeps the tympanic membrane tensed. This allows sound vibrations on any portion of the tympanic membrane to be transmitted to the malleus, which would not be true if the membrane were lax.

Cochlea is a system of coiled tubes.

It consists of:

  1. Three tubes:

  • scala vestibuli;

  • scala media;

  • scala tympani.

  1. Two membranes:

  • Reissner’s (vestibular) membrane: separates scala vestibuli and scala media.

  • Basilar membrane: separates scala media and scala tympani.

Organ of Corti

It lies on surface of basilar membrane. It contains mechanically-sensitive hair cells which are receptive end-organs and generate nerve impulses in response to sound vibrations.

Fluid present in cochlea:

  • Perilymph: present in scala vestibuli and scala tympani. It is almost identical to cerebro-spinal fluid (liquor).

  • Endolymph- present in scala media.