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Special Sense: Hearing (inner ear (ducts (scala media (hair cells located…

- - - - attached to tympanic membrane at 3 places
    - - bound to oval window
- - - - hair cells located in spiral organ
      - sit on top of a basilar membrane
      - connected to an overlying tectorial membrane
      - sound makes basilar membrane bounce up and down
- - - - bending in the direction of kinocilium
  - - - bending away from kinocilium
- - - - incus stapes
        
        oval window to perilymph
        
        scala vestibuli to scala tympani
        
        round window to vestibular membrane
        
        endolymph to cochlea
- - - - thalamus to auditory cortex
- - - - high pitched sounds
- - - - utricle and saccule contain a macula
      - two maculae are receptors for static equilibrium
  - - - bound to cupula (gelatinous mass)
  - - - hair cells grouped here
      - covered by gelatinous mass
      - surface are statoconia
      - acceleration and gravity shift otolith, stimulating hair cells