 | Caleb Ticknor - Medicine - 1838 - 284 pages
...which is above price. The organ of hearing is divided by anatomists into r 166 MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY. three parts ; the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. 1. "The external ear, embraces the cartilage, and the auditory passage. 2. The, middle ear is formed... | |
 | Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould - Physiology, Comparative - 1851 - 478 pages
...not, properly speaking, constitute the organ temporal bone. of hearing. The true seat of that sense is in the interior of the head. It is usually a very...external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear, as shewn in fig. 45. § 148. The external ear consists of the conch (a), and the canal which leads... | |
 | Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould - Physiology, Comparative - 1860 - 278 pages
...the organ of hearing, properly speaking. The true seat of hearing is deeper, quite in the inferior of the head. It is usually a very complicated apparatus,...The external ear, which is popularly regarded as the car, consists of the conch, (a,) and the canal which leads from it the external auditory passage, (6.)... | |
 | John Bingham Roberts - 1881 - 204 pages
...canaliculi and duct into the nose. THE EAR. The function of hearing resides in the ear, which consists of three parts ; the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. THE ENTERNAL EAR is composed of the auricle, or pinna, and the external auditory meatus. The auricle... | |
 | Charles Karsner Mills - Hygiene - 1883 - 220 pages
...sense of hearing. The organ of hearing is the ear, of which you have a view (Fig. 28). It consists of three parts, the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. The external ear includes the projecting and curiously curved part commonly called the ear and the... | |
 | Clinical medicine - 1904 - 436 pages
...impressions from the ear. Now, the ear, or rather the complete organ of hearing, consists, as you know, of three parts : the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. And the internal ear is the part which is generally in trouble when giddiness arises from ear mischief,... | |
 | Arthur Wisswald Weysse - Histology - 1898 - 114 pages
...periosteum by areolar tissue containing a rich venous plexus. B. THE AUDITORY APPARATUS. The ear consists of three parts, the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. I. The external ear. 1. The pinna and a part of the external auditory canal consist of a framework... | |
 | Charles Henry Stowell - Anatomy - 1906 - 336 pages
...cerebrum. CHAPTER XXVI THE SENSE OF HEARING The Organ of Hearing. — The organ of hearing consists of three parts : the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. The vibrations of the air are collected by the external ear, received by the middle ear, and transmitted... | |
 | Francis Marion Walters - Physiology - 1909 - 454 pages
...transmits sound waves and also concentrates them upon a suitable exposure of nerve cells. It includes three parts — the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. External Ear. — The external ear consists of the part on the outside of the head called the pinna,... | |
 | A. J. Jex-Blake - 1915 - 264 pages
...treatment has given excellent results. For anatomical and pathological purposes the ear is divided up into three parts — the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear or labyrinth — and ny of these may be infected witf» tubercle bacilli. The external ear, consisting... | |
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In mammals it is composed of three parts, the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear, and its structure is as follows : (Fig. 
