| Question | Answer |
| Auditory Cortex | Where?- temporal lobe of brain
What Occurs?- Sensory information from the ears is interpreted
Why?- In order to hear |
| Auricle | Where?- The visible external ear
AKA?- the Pinna |
| Cerumen | What?- Sticky wax secreted by glands
Where?- In the external auditory canal
Why?- To trap dirt |
| Cochlea | What?- Coiled structure associated with the sense of hearing
Where?- Inner ear |
| Eustachian Tube | What?- tube tube that connects the middle of ear to the nasopharynx
Why?- equalizes pressure between the middle ear and throat |
| Incus | What?- Second bone of Middle ear |
| Malleus | What?- First bone of middle ear |
| Mastoid Process | What?- Bony projection
Where?- Temporal Bone behind the ear |
| Ossicles | What?- Three tiny bones: Malleus, Incus, and Stapes
Where?- Middle ear |
| Semicircular Canals | What?- 3 seperate but intertwined canals
Where?- In the inner ear, oriented on different planes |
| Stapes | What?- third bone of middle ear |
| Tymponic Membrane | What?- a membrane that divides external ear from the middle ear |
| Vestibule | Where?- entrance to the inner ear |
| Ethmoid Sinuses | What?- Groups of small air cells
Where?- in the ethmomid bone between the nose and eyes |
| Frontal Sinuses | Sinuses above each eyebrow
where?- in the frontal bone of the cranium |
| Maxillary Sinuses | Largest of sinuses
where? each side of the nose |
| sinus | HOllow cavity
Where?- within a cranial or facial bone |
| sphenoid sinuses | Where?- in the sphenoid bone, posterior to the nasal cavity and near the pituitary gland of the brian |
| Naris | one nostril, the opening into the nasal cavity |
| nasal cavity | hollow area formed by the ethmoid and maxillary bones
where? area inside the nose |
| Nasal Septum | wall of cartilage and bones that divides the nasal cavity into right and left sides |
| Turbinates | three long projections of bone covered with mucosa that jut into the nasal cavity |
| Hard Palate | bone that divides the nasal cavity from the oral cavity |
| Buccal Mucosa | lines the cheek area of the oral cavity |
| oral cavity | hollow area inside the mouth that contains the tongue, teeth hard and soft palates and uvula |
| Soft Palate | soft tissue extension of the hard palate at the back of the throat |
| Tempromandibular Joint | MOveable joint where ligaments attach each end of the mandible to the temporal bones of the cranium |
| tongue | large muscle in the oral cavity that is attched to the mandible |
| adenoids | large muscle in the oral cavity that is attached to the mandible |
| lingual tonsils | lymphoid tissue located on both sides of the base at the tongue in the laryngopharynx |
