Medically reviewed by Sukaina Hasnie, MD The malleus is a hammer-shaped bone in the middle ear. It is also known as the ...

Hearing loss from a cholesteatoma is generally attributed to the wearing away and eventual destruction of the middle ear's ...

The ossicles move the sound to the inner ear, which sends signals to the brain. Amazing. Sadly, we can't go beyond the eardrum and see all that inner goodness, because we don't want to puncture it.

Use of the chinchilla as a model of middle ear infection in auditory research necessitates accessing the middle ear to collect samples or inoculate bacteria. This column describes a simple ...

The middle ear, composed of the eardrum and ossicles, transmits sound waves to the inner ear, which features the cochlea - the hearing organ responsible for transmitting auditory messages to the ...