Anatom3DMiddle ear
Auris media · Střední ucho
Sense organs
Looks like
An air-filled room the size of a pea behind the drum, holding the three smallest bones.
What it does
Turns air vibration into fluid movement, and multiplies the force twenty times.
Keeping it well
Keep the tube clear: treat allergies and colds; children get glue ear because their tube is flatter.
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
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Otosclerosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency