Anatomy of Ear | Animation | Extraclass

Watch More Videos @ , Animation illustration of Anatomy of human ear Actually, our ears perform two sensory functions, hearing and maintenance of body balance. So let’s learn about the structure of a human ear Anatomically, the ear can be divided into three major sections :- the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear consists of the pinna and external auditory meatus or (canal). External auditory meatus extends to form a tympanic membrane or the eardrum and composed of dense connective tissue. There are very fine hairs and wax-secreting glands in the skin of the pinna and the meatus. The middle ear contains three ossicles called the malleus, incus, and stapes attached from each other in a chain-like fashion. The ear ossicles increase the efficiency of transmission of sound waves to the inner ear. A Eustachian tube helps in equalizing the pressures on eith