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    The document describes the histology of the ear, including its external, middle, and internal structures. It details the parts of the external ear, middle ear, and internal ear, including the pinna, external acoustic meatus, tympanic membrane, auditory ossicles, mastoid air cells, tympanic cavity, auditory tube, bony labyrinth, membranous labyrinth, vestibular labyrinth, cochlear labyrinth, organ of Corti, and other structures.

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    The document describes the histology of the ear, including its external, middle, and internal structures. It details the parts of the external ear, middle ear, and internal ear, including the pinna, external acoustic meatus, tympanic membrane, auditory ossicles, mastoid air cells, tympanic cavity, auditory tube, bony labyrinth, membranous labyrinth, vestibular labyrinth, cochlear labyrinth, organ of Corti, and other structures.

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    HISTOLOGY OF THE

    EAR

    THE EAR
    Ear
    Sensory organ functions as an auditory system for
    sound perception and as a vestibular system for
    balance

    General Structure
    External Ear
    Middle Ear
    Internal Ear

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    External Ear
    Pinna
    Auricle
    Elastic cartilage except in auricle lobule
    Covered by hair-bearing skin hair follicles, sweat
    gland and sebaceus gland
    Function To collect and amplifies sounds

    External Acoustic Meatus


    An air-filled tubulae space 25 mm to tympanic
    membrane
    Lined by skin hair follicles, sebaceous gland &
    ceruminous glands
    The outer 2/3 elastic cartilage
    The inner 1/3 temporal bone

    Middle Ear
    Tympanic Membrane
    oval, grayish
    3 layers
    Outer layer covered by
    skin, stratified squamous
    epithelium, no glands, no
    hair
    Middle layer
    Fibrocollagenous support
    tissue
    Inner layer lined by low
    cuboidal epithelium

    Auditory ossicles
    3 bones malleus, incus, stapes
    2 muscles m tensor timpany & m. stapedius
    Convert the sound waves to mechanical vibration in perilmfe of the
    internal ear

    Mastoid air cells


    An air-filled spaces in the mastoid bone

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    Tympanic cavity
    = Middle ear cavity
    An air-filled space lined by low cuboidal epithelium
    Communicates with mastoid air cells

    Auditory tube (eustachian tube)


    Connects the middle ear to
    nasopharynx
    A narrow channel 3.5 cm long
    Lined with cilliated pseudostratified
    columnair epithelium 1/5 composed
    of goblet cells
    Ventilating the middle ear
    Equalizing the pressure ot the
    middle ear with atmosphere pressure

    Internal Ear
    Consists of :
    2 labyrinthine compartments
    Bony labyrinth
    Membranous labyrinth

    3 fluid-filled spaces

    Endolymphatic space
    Perilymphatic space
    Cortilymphatic space

    Bony Labyrinth
    Composed of 3 cavities
    vestibule, semicircular canals,
    cochlea
    Lined by periosteum, filled by
    perilymph
    Vestibule
    Oval
    Oval window

    Semicircular canals
    3 canals anterior, posterior &
    lateral
    Expanded at the end of each
    canals close to the vestibule
    ampulla

    Cochlea
    Contains 3 spaces

    vestibular cavity (scala


    vestibuli), cochlear duct
    (scala media) & tympanic
    cavity (scala tympani)
    wound in a spiral shape
    The central spiral of bone
    within the cochlea
    Modiolus
    At the apex the vestibular
    & tympanic cavity connect
    at an opening
    Helicotrema Helicotrema

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    Membranous Labyrinth
    Vestibular labyrinth

    3 semicircular ducts
    Utricle & saccule
    Thin wall, transparent

    Semicircular ducts
    3 ducts, expand at the end ampulla
    A raised mass of epithelial tissue in
    ampulla crista ampullaris
    contains of sensory & supporting
    cells
    A gelatinous mass of extracellular
    material covering the crista
    cupula

    Utricle
    Ends of semicircular
    ducts
    Lateral wall macula of
    utricle

    Saccule
    Utriculosaccular duct
    connect the utricle &
    saccule
    Endolymphatic duct
    saccule and
    endolymphatic sac
    Reuniens duct saccule
    with cochlear duct
    Medial wall macula of
    saccule

    Macula
    Contains of sensory hair
    cells & supporting cells
    2 types of sensory cells
    Type 1 hair cells
    Type 2 hair cells

    The sensory & supporting


    cells covered by a
    gelatinous mass of
    extracellular molecules
    otolithic membrane
    Detect the gravity and
    static position

    Cochlear Labyrinth
    Contains the cochlear ducts, filled with endolymph
    Divides the cochlear canal into 3 compartments : Scala media, scala
    vestibuli & scala tympani
    Scala media is a triangular space, attached to osseous spiral lamina
    The upper wall of scala media Reissners (Vestibular) membrane
    The lateral wall of scala media Stria vascularis
    The lower wall Basilar membrane
    The spiral organ of corti rests on the basilar membrane & is overlain by the
    Tectorial membrane

    Tectorial membrane
    Attached medially to the
    modiolus
    Lateral edge attaches to
    the organ corti by
    stereocilia of the hair
    cells
    Formed from
    extracellular material

    Organ of Corti
    Composed of epithelial support cells
    and sensory hair cells
    Medially it rests on osseous spiral
    lamina, laterally on the basilar
    membrane
    2 groups of hair cells
    Inner hair cells & Outer hair cells
    separated by the inner tunnel
    (tunnel of corti)
    The hair cells are surrounded by
    epithelial support cells
    Pilar cells surround & support
    the inner tunnel
    Phalangeal cells support the hair
    cells

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