Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Hearing loss is classified into three types: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed (when conductive and sensorineural hearing loss co-occur). Conductive ...

Types of Hearing Loss The ear consists of a 3-part mechanism including the outer ear (the pinna and ear canal), the middle ear (the tympanic membrane, the ossicles, and the middle ear cavity), and ...

How it works: A standard cochlear implant consists of an external portion that looks like a behind-the-ear hearing aid. It is connected by a magnetic disk to a second component surgically implanted ...

Here’s how it works. The human outer ear may have arisen from ancient fish gills.(Image credit: A. Martin UW Photography/Getty Images (left); Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images (right)) ...

Unlike bones, which can fossilize and provide clear evidence of evolutionary changes, the outer ear consists primarily of elastic cartilage – a flexible, specialized tissue that rarely preserves in ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in Nature from the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, this intricate coil ...

The external ear consists of the pinna (the part of the ear that you can see), as well as the ear canal. The middle ear contains the ossicles, which are three small bones that help you hear, as ...

The outer ear, also known as the external ear or auris externa, consists of the auricle, ear canal, and eardrum. They work together to funnel sound waves from the environment to the middle and inner ...

Our ear consists of three parts, and hearing loss can happen due to pathology affecting the outer, middle, or inner ear. In children, it may lead to speech delay or learning disability, while ...