According to Michigan Medicine, putting a Q-tip into the ear canal can be dangerous. The ear cleans itself by producing ear ...

Signs you may have trapped water in your middle ear rather than the external ear canal include a sensation of fullness or congestion in the ear and hearing loss. You cannot diagnose this fluid ...

Scientists have made a major leap in ear imaging by using terahertz radiation to see inside the cochlea – an impossibly tiny, ...

The middle ear consists of the ear drum ... The outer portion of the external ear reflects sound towards the ear canal. Once in the ear canal, the pressure waves are aligned so they strike the ear ...

This occurs when the air pressure outside the ear is different to the air pressure inside the eustachian tubes. The eustachian tubes are narrow canals that connect the middle ear to the upper ...

Gently grasp the outer ear and pull it upward to help straighten the canal. Using a syringe, carefully direct a small stream ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

Motion of the head causes fluid to slip in the semicircular canals. The moving fluid stimulates patches of sensory cells, cristae, conveying information about position and movement. In the evolution ...

or scarring of the ear canal due to recurrent infections are all potential causes of hearing loss. SNHL happens when there’s damage to inner ear structures or in the nerve pathways to the brain.

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

Changes in inner ear canal morphology over time suggest that mammalian ancestors called mammaliamorphs evolved warm-bloodedness around 233 million years ago during the late Triassic period, according ...