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Acous/o
audi/o
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Hearing
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Aur/i
ot/o
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Ear
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Cerumin/o
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Wax
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Salping/o
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Eustachian tube or uterine tube
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Tympan/o
myring/o
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Eardrum
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-acusis
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Hearing condition
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External auditory meatus (canal)
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External passage for sounds collected from the pinna to the tympanum
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Middle ear
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-malleus, incus, stapes
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Tympanic membrane- eardrum; recieves sound collected in the ext auditory meatus and amplifies it through the middle ear
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Eustachian tube
auditory tube
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Tube connecting the middle ear to the pharynx (throat)
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Mastoid process
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Projection in the temporal bone located behind the ear containing air cells that connect to the middle ear
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Oval window
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Membrane that covers the opening between the middle ear and inner ear
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Inner ear
(labyrinth, cochlea, perilymph, endolymph, organ of corti, vestibule, utricle, saccule, semicirch canals)
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Inner ear- structures and liquids that relay sound waves to the auditory nerve fibers on a path to the brain for interpretation of sound
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Labyrinth
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Maze; inner ear consisting of bony and membranous labyrinths
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Cochlea
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Coiled tubular structure of the inner ear that contain the organ of Corti
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Perilymph
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Fluid that fills the bony labyrinth of the ear
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