“The ear canal is sensitive and has a lot of nerve endings,” Lustig said. “A light touch that might feel like a tickle elsewhere can really hurt in the ear. So I wouldn’t go putting things in there.

There are five sensory epithelia in the balance portion of the inner ear (one for each of the three semicircular canals and two in a chamber where the three canals come together). The nerve fibers ...

Most cochlear nerves carry information from the cochlea ... "OCT lets us look down the ear canal, through the eardrum and ...

Iram Ahmad: Inside your middle ear is the nerve that moves the muscles of your ... it controls your balance using a number of liquid-filled canals. Ahmad: Those balance canals are responsible ...

Parts - cochlea and semi-circular canals Job - to convert the vibrations from the middle ear into nerve signals and to help you balance A narrow tube called the eustachian tube runs from the ...

Sound waves enter the ear canal and cause the eardrum to vibrate ... This produces electrical signals which pass through the auditory nerve to the brain, where they are interpreted as sound.