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The human ear has three main sections, which consist of the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. Sound waves enter your outer ear and travel through your ear canal to the middle ear.
The ear canal channels the waves to your eardrum, a thin, sensitive membrane stretched tightly over the entrance to your middle ear. The waves cause your eardrum to vibrate. It passes these vibrations on to the hammer, one of three tiny bones in your ear. The hammer vibrating causes the anvil, the small bone touching the hammer, to vibrate. T
he anvil passes these vibrations to the stirrup, another small bone which touches the anvil.
From the stirrup, the vibrations pass into the inner ear. The stirrup touches a liquid filled sack and the vibrations travel into the cochlea, which is shaped like a shell. Inside the cochlea, there are hundreds of special cells attached to nerve fibers, which can transmit information to the brain. The brain processes the information from the ear and lets us distinguish between different types of sounds.
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Where is the bone called the hammer located?
In the ear
What is the hammer part of the ear?
a bone in the middle ear
What is hammer of the ear?
malleus
Where in the body would you find a hammer?
I dont know if you're referring to the hammer as in the ear. Also called the malleus. "The middle ear, an air-filled cavity behind the ear drum (tympanic membrane), includes the three ear bones or ossicles: the malleus (or hammer), incus (or anvil), and stapes (or stirrup)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear
What does the hammer anvil and stirrup do?
the anvil stirrup and hammer are the tiniest bones in our body and our found in the ear. when sound travels through our ear the anvil stirrup and hammer vibrate
What do the hammer anvil and stirrup do?
the anvil stirrup and hammer are the tiniest bones in our body and our found in the ear. when sound travels through our ear the anvil stirrup and hammer vibrate
What part of the ear connects the eardrum to the inner ear?
The eardrum is not a bone but is a thin, cone-shaped piece of skin. It is positioned between the ear canal and the middle ear.
What is the smalest muscle?
The hammer in the ear
What is the hammer an anvil?
The Hammer an Anvil are small bones in the ear
What do a hammer anvil and stirrup have in common?
The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are all tiny bones found in the middle ear. They work together to transmit sound vibrations from the ear drum to the inner ear, where they are converted into nerve impulses that our brain perceives as sound.
Where would you find a hammer bone?
the ear
What is the bone known as the hammer in the ear?
The hammer (malleus) joins the inside of the eardrum. It sends sound vibrations to the incus from the eardrum. The anvil (incus) has a broad joint with the hammer and a very delicate joint to the stirrup (stapes). Refer to related question below.
