Ear
Gazala Noor
Faculty of Pharmacy
Integral University, Lucknow
, Medical Terms
• Ot/o-ear, media-middle
• Acusia, audi/o-Hearing
• Salping/o-auditory tube
• Tympan/o,myring/o - ear drum
• Staped/o-stapes bone
• The middle ear has three tiny bones in it, including:
• Hammer, called the malleus- attached to the eardrum.
• Anvil, called the incus-in the middle of the chain of
bones.
• Stirrup, called the stapes-attached to the membrane-
covered opening that connects the middle ear with the
inner ear.
• Mastoid/o-mastoid air cell
• Labyrinth/o- inner ear
Gazala Noor
Faculty of Pharmacy
Integral University, Lucknow
, Medical Terms
• Ot/o-ear, media-middle
• Acusia, audi/o-Hearing
• Salping/o-auditory tube
• Tympan/o,myring/o - ear drum
• Staped/o-stapes bone
• The middle ear has three tiny bones in it, including:
• Hammer, called the malleus- attached to the eardrum.
• Anvil, called the incus-in the middle of the chain of
bones.
• Stirrup, called the stapes-attached to the membrane-
covered opening that connects the middle ear with the
inner ear.
• Mastoid/o-mastoid air cell
• Labyrinth/o- inner ear
