Ear Anatomy MCQ

Which of the following is NOT a boundary of the triangular fossa?

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Correct Answer: Ascending portion of the helix

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What is the Triangular Fossa?

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Correct Answer: The concavity bounded by the superior and inferior crura of the antihelix and the ascending portion of the helix.

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What is Scapha?

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Correct Answer: The groove between the helix and the antihelix.

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The earlobe is variable in size due to what reason?

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Correct Answer: It is highly variable in size and in the degree of attachment of the anteroinferior portion to the face.

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What is the earlobe?

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Correct Answer: The soft, fleshy, inferior part of the pinna.

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What is the average crus helix?

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Correct Answer: Extends about one half to two thirds the distance across the concha

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What is the synonym for crista helicis?

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Correct Answer: Crus helix

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The helix can be divided into approximately how many parts?

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Correct Answer: 3

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The Frankfurt Horizontal is used as the _____.

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Correct Answer: General horizontal plane of the head

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What is the fossa bisected by the crus helix called?

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Correct Answer: Cymba superiorly and cavum inferiorly.

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What is the anterosuperior cartilaginous protrusion lying between the incisura and the origin of the antihelix called?

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Correct Answer: Antitragus

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What does the superior crus of the antihelix do?

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Correct Answer: Separates the scapha from the triangular fossa

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What is the lower cartilaginous ridge arising at the bifurcation of the antihelix called?

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Correct Answer: Inferior Crus

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What is the stem of the antihelix?

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Correct Answer: The part below the bifurcation

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The antihelix ridge separates which three structures?

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Correct Answer: Concha, Triangular Fossa, Scapha

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What is the definition of prodromal?

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Correct Answer: Early symptoms that may indicate the onset of a condition or disease

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What does the word "motile" mean?

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Correct Answer: Capable of movement

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What does "suppurative" mean?

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Correct Answer: Containing or producing pus

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What does purulent mean?

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Correct Answer: Containing pus

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What is a sinus?

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Correct Answer: A cavity in the body that is lined with mucous membrane and drains into the nose

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What is the function of the sinus?

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Correct Answer: To contain venous blood

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What is the medical term for pain in the ear?

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Correct Answer: Otalgia

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What is the definition of "otalgia"?

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Correct Answer: Pain in the ear

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What is Tinnitus?

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Correct Answer: A jingling; a ringing or buzzing in the ear

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What is aural fullness?

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Correct Answer: Feeling of pressure in the ear

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What is cerumen?

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Correct Answer: A waxy substance secreted by glands located throughout the external canal

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What is rhinitis?

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Correct Answer: Inflammation of the nose

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What is the definition of "otorrhea"?

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Correct Answer: Any discharge from the ear

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What does distension mean?

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Correct Answer: Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside

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What does epithelial tissue do?

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Correct Answer: It covers the surfaces of the body, inside and out.

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What does the basilar membrane do?

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Correct Answer: Runs the length of the cochlea in the inner ear and holds the auditory receptors, called hair cells.

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What is the modiolus?

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Correct Answer: The modiolus is a conical shaped central axis in the cochlea

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What does modiolus mean?

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Correct Answer: Conical shaped central axis in the cochlea

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What is the scala tympani?

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Correct Answer: A duct in the inner ear

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What is the smaller of two sacs within the membranous labyrinth of the vestibule in the inner ear?

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Correct Answer: Saccule

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What is the utricle?

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Correct Answer: The larger of two sacs within the membranous labyrinth of the vestibule in the inner ear

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What is the vestibule of the ear?

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Correct Answer: The area between the cochlea and the semicircular canals.

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What is the membraneous labyrinth?

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Correct Answer: Membrane-covered tubes inside the bony labyrinth

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What is the bony labyrinth?

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Correct Answer: A winding tunnel located in the inner ear.

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What is exudate?

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Correct Answer: Fluid, such as pus, that leaks out of an infected wound

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Transudative effusion is caused by an increase in intravascular hydrostatic pressure or a decrease in _____.

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Correct Answer: Capillary oncotic pressure

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What is the stapedius?

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Correct Answer: A middle-ear muscle that is attached to the stapes.

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What is inserted on the handle of the malleus?

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Correct Answer: Tensor tempani

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Which of the following is not a wall of the tympanic cavity?

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Correct Answer: Jugular wall

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What is the definition of cranial fossae?

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Correct Answer: Depressions in floor of cranium on which the brain rests

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What does the petrous part enclose?

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Correct Answer: Structures of the inner ear

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What is the stapes?

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Correct Answer: Stirrup; last of the three auditory ossicles of the middle ear

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What are the three tiny bones in the middle ear called?

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Correct Answer: Ossicles

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What are ossicles?

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Correct Answer: Three tiny bones in the middle ear

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What is mastoiditis?

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Correct Answer: Inflammation of the mastoid bone

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What is the Scapha of Ear?

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Correct Answer: Fossa between the inner and outer rims of the ear

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What is the scapha of the ear?

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Correct Answer: The fossa between the inner and outer rims of the ear

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What is the name for the cartilaginous ridge arising at the bifurcation of the antihelix?

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Correct Answer: Inferior helical crus

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What is the vagus nerve?

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Correct Answer: The tenth cranial nerve that innervates digestive organs, heart and other areas

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What is the pars tensa?

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Correct Answer: The thick, taut, central-inferior section of the tympanic membrane

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What is the thick, taut, central-inferior section of the tympanic membrane called?

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Correct Answer: Pars flaccida

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What is the meaning of "pars flaccida"?

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Correct Answer: Small, slack, superior section of tympanic membrane

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What is the meaning of the word "malleus"?

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Correct Answer: Hammer

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What is the Perichondrium?

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Correct Answer: A dense irregular connective tissue membrane that covers cartilage.

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What is the name of the small eminence located on the superior border of the lobe of the ear?

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Correct Answer: Antitragus

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What is the Antitragus of ear?

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Correct Answer: A small eminence obliquely opposite the tragus. Located on the superior border of the lobe of the ear.

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What is the tragus?

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Correct Answer: Cartilaginous projection anterior to the external opening of the ear

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What is the definition of "concha"?

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Correct Answer: The concave shell of the ear; the deepest depression of the ear

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What is the antihelix?

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Correct Answer: The inner rim of the ear

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What is the outermost curvature of the ear called?

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Correct Answer: Helix

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What is the tympanic membrane?

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Correct Answer: Eardrum

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What is Meatus?

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Correct Answer: Canal-like passageway

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What is a "meatus"?

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Correct Answer: A canal-like passageway

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What is the cartilaginous outside part of the ear called?

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Correct Answer: Pinna

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What is the vestibular system responsible for?

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Correct Answer: Maintaining balance

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Which of the following is NOT a symptom of enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome?

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Correct Answer: Unilateral hearing loss

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What is the vestibular aqueduct?

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Correct Answer: A bony canal that goes from the medial faccial the vestibule outside the temporal bone

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Which of the following is not a part of the stapes?

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Correct Answer: Malleus

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What is the third ossicle in the middle ear called?

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Correct Answer: Stapes

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How many semicircular canal are present in human ear?

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Correct Answer: Three

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What are the three canal of labirinth?

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Correct Answer: Semicircular canal

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What is the smaller of the two vestibular sacs called?

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Correct Answer: Saccule

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What is the Saccule?

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Correct Answer: The smaller of the two vestibular sacs.

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What is the other name for otolith?

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Correct Answer: Statolith

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Which of the following does NOT belong to the middle ear?

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Correct Answer: Round window

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What are the three auditory ossicles in the middle ear?

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Correct Answer: Malleus, Incus, Stapes

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What is the name of the sinus located behind the ear?

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Correct Answer: Mastoid antrum

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What is the mastoid antrum?

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Correct Answer: A locaded in the epitympanic recess

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Malleus is a small bone situated in which part of the ear?

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Correct Answer: Middle ear

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What is the malleus?

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Correct Answer: A small bone situated in the middle ear

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What does the inner ear contain?

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Correct Answer: The cochlea and the vestibular system.

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What is the Incus?

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Correct Answer: A small bone situated in the middle ear

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What is the bony labirinth also known as?

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Correct Answer: Osseus Labirinth

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What is the bony wall of the osseus labirinth called?

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Correct Answer: Temporal bone

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The external ear is formed by the auricle, the external auditory meatus and _____.

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Correct Answer: Eardrum

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What is the external auditory meatus?

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Correct Answer: A tube that runs between the outer ear and middle ear.

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What is the External Auditory Canal?

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Correct Answer: The External Auditory Canal is the passageway from the outer ear to the middle ear.

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What is contained in the vestibular aqueduct?

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Correct Answer: The ductus endolymphaticus

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What is the pathogenic mechanism of Ménière's disease?

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Correct Answer: Abnormal circulation of the inner era fluids

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What is the function of the eardrum?

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Correct Answer: The function of the eardrum is transmitted from the sound to the auditory ossicles.

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What is the name of the thin membrane that closes the external ear canal?

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Correct Answer: Eardrum

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What is the cochlea?

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Correct Answer: The cochlea is an organ of hearing.

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What are the three auditory ossicles?

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Correct Answer: Malleus, incus, stapes

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What are auditory ossicles?

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Correct Answer: Malleus (or hammer), incus and staphes

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How many main parts does the ear have?

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Correct Answer: Three

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What are the three main parts of the ear?

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Correct Answer: The external ear, the middle ear and the inner ear.

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