Ears Quiz: questions and answers
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1. The human ear consists of which three parts?
The outer ear, middle ear and inner ear
2. What is the function of the outer ear?
To gather sound energy and focus it on the eardrum
3. What is the auricle or auricula?
The visible part of the ear that resides outside the head
4. The ear canal stretches for about:
1 inch
5. Which of the following nerves does not supply sensation to parts of the outer ear and the surrounding skin?
Sural nerve
6. Which artery provides the majority of the blood supply of the outer ear?
Posterior auricular artery
7. What is the name of the rigid, bony outer wall of the inner ear in the temporal bone?
Bony labyrinth
8. The ossicles are three small bones that function together to receive, amplify, and transmit the sound from the eardrum to the inner ear. The ossicles are:
Malleus, incus, and stapes
9. When did the Italian anatomist Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti discover the organ of Corti?
1851
10. What is the Latin word for "ear"?
Auris