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Auris · Ucho
Sense organs
Looks like
A funnel of cartilage, a canal, a drum, three tiny bones, and a snail-shaped coil deep in bone.
What it does
Hearing, and the sense of balance.
Keeping it well
Keep the volume down and use ear protection; nothing smaller than your elbow in the canal. Sudden one-sided deafness is an emergency.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Bell's palsy
- Botulism
- Cholesteatoma
- Ear infections (otitis media & externa)
- Earwax blockage
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Hearing loss & presbycusis
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Ménière's disease
- Motion sickness
- Muscular dystrophy
- Noise-induced hearing loss
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Otosclerosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus
- Tinnitus
- Vertigo (BPPV, vestibular neuritis)
- Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency