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what is an eardrum.what is an auditory canal. what is an outer ear. what is an cochlea. what is earwax.?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    The auditory canal is part or the outer ear (which also includes the part of your ear that you can see (the pinna) and the tube which leads to the eardrum. It is where earwax is excreted. Ear wax helps protect the ear canal from small foreign bodies by pushing them out. The eardrum is the three-layer thick membrane between your ear canal and the middle ear. It moves in response to sound and wiggles the bones in your middle ear. The middle ear is where the bones,( in layman's terms), called the hammer, anvil, and stirrup are. This is the location of most ear infections in children. The cochlea is part of the inner ear, and it is the snail-shaped organ that turns the mechanical part of hearing into the nerve impulses to the brainstem and the brain via the auditory nerve..

    Source(s): I studied audiology.
  • matis
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Black ear wax isn't reliable. you want to work out a doctor. it will be a demonstration of an infection contained in the ear. in various of circumstances using Debrox ear drops will do the trick. you placed them in and enable them sit down in there for a jiffy and then flush the ear out with water. you could might want to do it some circumstances to make it artwork. do not use Otix drops, they don't artwork in any respect. although, in the adventure that your wax is black, you want to seek medical interest.

  • 1 decade ago

    you can look this up on the internet. i'm not going to look it up for you.

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