Whoa. I’m learning the names and locations and purposes of many elements of the ears in our bodies. Among them:
- Utricle:
- Ossicles: 3 inside the …
- Tympanic cavity
- Auricle:
- Cochlea:
- Modiolus:
- Spiral organ, aka Organ of Corti:
- Epithelial cells, aka epithelium:
- Helix:
- Anti helix:
- Tragus:
- Anti tragus:
- Concha cavem:
- Concha cymba:
- Intertragic notch:
These 15 terms (and places) are just the beginning. I wonder if — and I’m doubtful that — these parts amount to 2 pounds/1 kilo of weight or if their volume is 4 inches by 2 inches by 2 inches (so, 16 cubic inches). Yet, they are fundamental and pivotal to so much life and how I live, function, and move. All of this emanates from an area less than 16 cubed inches throughout these 185 pounds.
During 20 minutes on Wikipedia, I read, researched, clicked onto all of this. Wikipedia is the best social media app and platform for me as the slow, literary means occur a pace conducive to my learning while giving me endless doorways open in pursuit of new revelations. And the search terms to find images like these: the parts of the outer ear visible to another person’s eyes and how to draw an ear in six steps from Cindy Ellison’s blogspot.
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