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The inner ear contains the organs of both hearing and of equilibrium.
It consists of two parts: osseous (bony) labyrinth membraneous labyrinth (contained within the osseous labyrinth and made up of interconnected sacs and tubes)
The space between the two is filled w/perilymph, a fluid secreted by the cells lining the bony canals.
The tubular chambers of the membraneous labyrinth are filled w/a second fluid, known as the endolymph. These fluids provide the media for vibrations involved in hearing and the maintenance of equilibrium.
Osseous Labyrinth
The osseous or bony labyrinth consists of three structural and functional divisions: Vestibule
Semicircular canals
Cochlea
Osseus Labyrinth
Osseus Labyrinth
Membranous Labyrinth
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The Vestibule
The vestibule is the central part of the bony labyrinth. Its lateral wall contains the oval window shown as the bean shaped white blotch between the utricle and saccule. The membraneous labyrinth within the vestibule consists of two interconnected sacs called the utricle and the saccule. The utricle is the larger of the two. Both contain receptors which are sensitive to gravity and linear movements of the head.
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The Utricle
The utricle like the rest of the membraneous labyrinth is filled w/endolymph.
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Each has an ampulla ( dilation) which connects to the vestibule. Within the semicircular canals are the semicircular ducts which are part of the membraneous labyrinth. They conform in shape to the bony semicircular canals. Receptors inside the semicircular ducts are sensitive to angular acceleration and deceleration of the head as in rotational movement. These receptors are located in the ampullae and are called cristae ampullaris.
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The Saccule
The saccule has openings into the endolymphatic duct and the cochlear duct.
Its sense organ in the macula sacculi
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Hair cells in the crista ampullaris (in the base of each semi circular canal) sense movements of the head. The cupula remnannts seen as pink layer layer over crista bends hair cells stereocilia w/movements of endolymph in the canal 20
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The Cochlea
The cochlea is shaped like a snail shell
It winds two and three quarters turns around a central bony axis, the modiolus.
Projecting outward from the modiolus is a thin bony plate the spiral lamina partially divides the cochlear canal into an upper passageway called the scala vestibuli which originates at the oval window and is continuous with the vestibule and a lower one called the scala tympani which terminates at the round window.
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This sections through the modiolus shows three and a half turns of the cochlea resulting in seven separate cross sections. Nerves from each converge in the core to form the auditory nerve. 29
The Cochlea
Both of these are filled with perilymph and are separate except at the very narrow apex of the cochlea an area called the helicotrema. In between these canals there is the triangular passage way called the cochlear duct. The roof of the cochlear duct is called the vestibular membrane while its floor is called the basilar membrane.
The cochlear duct is filled with endolymph and terminates at the helicotrema.
It contains the Organ of Corti.
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The Cochlea
Section of Cochlea
The cochlea has three fluid filled sections. The perilymph fluid in the canals differs from the endolymph fluid in the cochlear duct. The organ of Corti is the sensor of pressure variations.
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Each cross section contain three chambers : Scala vestibuli Scala media Scala tympani The auditory nerve (arrow) is also visible
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The epithelium of the organ of Corti consists of supporting cells and hair cells.
The bases of the latter are anchored in the basilar membrane while their tips are embedded in tectorial membrane
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This is the basic hearing units find in the vestibular membrane (black), tectorial membrane (blue) and the basilar membrane (green)
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The pressure changes in the cochlea caused by sound entering the ear travel down the fluid filled tympanic and vestibular canals which are filled with a fluid called perilymph. This perilymph is almost identical to spinal fluid and differs significantly from the endolymph which fills the cochlear duct and surrounds the sensitive organ of Corti. The fluids differ in terms of their electrolytes and if the membranes are ruptured so that there is mixing of the fluids, the hearing is 42 impaired.
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Stria vascularis
Reissners membrane
Tight junction between adjacent cells in the boundary tissue limit diffusion of ions between the endolymphatic and perilymphatic compartement. The ionioc composition of the endolymph in the scala media gives rise to To an electrical potential called endolymphatic potential.
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Inferior vestibular n.
ampullae of posterior S.C. Macullae of sacullae
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