Read on to learn more about the ear canal, its anatomy, and some of the health conditions that can affect it. The ear canal, or auditory canal, is a tube that runs from the outer ear to the eardrum.

Keep reading to learn more about the anatomy of the inner ear, as well as about several health conditions that may affect this essential sensory organ. The inner ear, or labyrinth, is the deepest ...

But Ricardo Araújo at the University of Lisbon in Portugal and his colleagues suspected that the bony labyrinths containing the semicircular canals in the inner ear might provide a more precise ...

The eustachian tube is a canal that connects the middle ear to the nasopharynx (the upper throat and the back of the nasal cavity). It controls the pressure within the middle ear, making it equal ...

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