Ear parts ap psychology Flashcards
Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 5051401854 | cochlea | a coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses |  | 0 |
| 5051401859 | Ear Canal | The narrow, tubelike passage through which sound enters the ear. Also called external auditory canal . | 1 | |
| 5051401860 | Anvil | a tiny bone that passes vibrations from the hammer to the stirrup | 2 | |
| 5051401861 | Hammer | The hammer-shaped bone that is the outermost of the three small bones in the mammalian middle ear. Also called Malleus. | 3 | |
| 5051401862 | Stirrup | the smallest bone in the human body; it is situated in the ear and passes vibrations from the anvil to cochlea | 4 | |
| 5051401863 | Eardrum | a membrane of the middle ear that vibrates in response to sound waves | 5 | |
| 5051401864 | Auditory nerve | a bundle of nerve fibers that carries hearing information between the cochlea the brain | 6 | |
| 5051401865 | pinna | It gathers sound energy and focuses it on the eardrum | 7 | |
| 5051411276 | Semicircular canals | Help you keep your balance | 8 | |
| 5051414743 | Eustachian tube | permitting the equalization of pressure on each side of the eardrum | 9 |