Organ+of+hearing
111Corti — n. family name; Alfonso Corti (1822 1876), Italian anatomist who was the first to discover the sensory end organ of hearing …
112tympanum — [ tɪmpənəm] noun (plural tympanums or tympana nə) 1》 Anatomy & Zoology the membrane forming part of the organ of hearing, which vibrates in response to sound waves; the eardrum. 2》 Architecture a vertical recessed triangular space forming the… …
113ear — The organ of hearing. Grains of corn and the cob to which they are affixed by nature. In a mechanical sense, a part projecting from the side of anything. Consolidated Vapor Stove Co. v Elwood Gas Stove & Stamping Co. (CC Pa) 63 F 698 …
114auditory apparatus — noun all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears • Topics: ↑otology • Hypernyms: ↑apparatus • Part Holonyms: ↑auditory system • Part Meronyms: ↑ …
115auditory area — noun the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body • Syn: ↑auditory cortex • Hypernyms: ↑cortical area, ↑cortical region * * * noun or auditory center : a sensory …
116sound reception — Introduction response of an organism s aural mechanism, the ear, to a specific form of energy change, or sound waves. Sound waves can be transmitted through gases, liquids, or solids, but the hearing function of each species is particularly …
117Mark B. Cohen — For other uses, see Mark Cohen (disambiguation). Mark B. Cohen Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 202nd district Incumbent Assumed office 1974 Preceded by Eugene Gelfand …
118nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …
119syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …
120Pure tone audiometry — (PTA) is the key hearing test used to identify hearing threshold levels of an individual, enabling determination of the degree, type and configuration of a hearing loss. Thus, providing the basis for diagnosis and management. PTA is a subjective …
