When our ears pop, the sensation comes from the Eustachian tube. “ [The Eustachian tube]’s whole job is to help keep the ...

Modern mammals’ middle ear bones and jaws are completely separate, allowing for both greater hearing and greater chewing and suckling ability. F. Mao et al/Science 2019.

The three small bones in the middle ear (hammer or malleus, anvil or incus, and stirrup or stapes) act as a transformer to transmit energy of the sound vibrations to the fluids of the inner ear.

Mammals, Le Maître notes, have particularly involved ears–with three middle ear bones instead of just the one that reptiles and birds have. Plus, we have large external ear structures (the ...

“Conductive hearing loss occurs when the continuous chain of three tiny middle ear bones — the ossicles — is disrupted, by trauma, disease, or infection,” Dr. Jeffrey Hirsch, assistant ...

As sound waves hit the ear drum, these waves are transferred through three tiny bones, or ossicles. Each of these bones serves to amplify the sound wave, which is then sent as impulses to the brain.

Dear J.B.: First, let’s review the anatomy. The ear has three components: the inner ear where the organs of balance and hearing are; the outer ear that includes the ear canal all the way to the ...

Ear. Image Credit: Myvector/Shutterstock.com. The Middle and Inner Ear. There are three tiny bones within the middle ear—malleus, incus, and stapes, which pass the sound vibrations to the inner ear.

South African surgeons have successfully performed the world's first transplant of middle-ear bones that uses 3-D printed components, a research university said. The surgery replaced the hammer ...