Cochlea

Auguste Majkowski, a Canadian boy was born deaf and received a bilateral cochlear implant which failed to help him hear. A bilateral cochlear implant helps provide hearing in 360 degrees because your head acts as a barrier to sounds coming from different directions (Cochlear, n.d.). Thirty-six days after Auguste’s surgery, he lifted his head after audiologists Margaret Winter sent pulses of electric currents to his brain. Lifting his head showed that he heard a sound. This reaction was…

the other two small bones (incus, stapes) or ossicles of the middle ear, the incus and stapes. As the stapes moves, it pushes a structure called the oval window in and out. This is passed onto the cochlea, which is a fluid-filled snail-like structure that contains the receptor organ for hearing. The cochlea contains the spiral organ of Corti, which is the receptor organ for hearing. It consists of tiny hair cells that translate the fluid vibration of sounds from its surrounding ducts into…

This paper explores the different diseases in which hearing loss is a side effect. The different causes of deafness are broad and are usually categorized between two types of deafness. There are two main types of deafness which are conductive deafness and nerve deafness. There is deafness in which you are born in (can be born in through disease), congenital deafness; and deafness which occurs later in life, adventitious deafness, usually caused by loud noises. The paper explores the Sensorial…

through into the ear canal. At the end of this ear canal is the eardrum. When the energy, also known as sound waves, hit the eardrum, they make it vibrate. The hammer, anvil and stapes in your skull, notice those vibrations and move them on towards the cochlea, a snail-shaped structure houses fluid and tiny hairs called cilia. The vibrations passed on from the eardrum…

To begin with Deafness is when a human has a hearing loss in his ear, which occurs when part of the human’s ear system is damaged or doesn’t function properly. it could be noticed when the person is asking everyone to speak slowly and loudly, keep turning the volume of the television and radio up, and will end up avoiding social communications and events. There are three main types of deafness; Conductive deafness is a condition where there is a malfunction in the middle ear (either the ear…

Every expecting parent dreams and wishes for nothing more than the delivery of a whole and healthy child, and while things don’t always go according to plan, it’s important to remain focused on the positive. There are many opportunities and resources available to families with of deaf children. Lately, many medical professionals and social media sites have been singing the praises of the pediatric cochlear implant, some going as far as to say that to deprive a child of an implant would be to…

The outer ear gathers sound waves from the environment and funnels them into the ear canal. At the end of the canal, the waves hit the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. Three tiny bones in the middle ear conduct the vibrations from the eardrum to the cochlea (a spiral-shaped chamber that looks a bit like a snail) in the inner ear. If anything interferes with the transfer of sound waves up to this point, the resulting type of hearing loss is called conductive.Conductive hearing loss may be…

The cochlea is responsible for you being able to hear even the tiniest of sounds. The tubes inside your inner ear are called semi-circular canals are sometimes called the labyrinth because they can be very complex. The semi-circular canals are responsible for your balance. The cochlea connects to the semicircular canal through the vestibule. The vestibule contains the saccule and the utricle and…

to damage to the cochlea. The cochlea is the anatomical structure that stimulates the auditory nerve, thus allowing the individual to perceive sound. However, a cochlear implant is not a cure for a hearing loss. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human services approximately 2-3 children out of 1,000 are born with…

loss, here are some of the most common questions and their answers. 1. What are the Mechanics of Hearing? Your ear is divided into three parts, the inner, middle and outer ear. The inner ear contains semi-circular canals for balance, as well as the cochlea. The Eustachian tubes and the stapes, the…