Doctors in the old days used to puncture the eardrum with a needle in order to relieve the pressure. The problem of this procedure is that it some times causes scarring of the tissue when it reforms,...
When a sound wave strikes the eardrum and passes along the hammer, anvil and stirrup (the tiny bones in your ear) the stirrup bone strikes a little membrane covered window that sloshes the fluid back...
The fluids in the ear are the very way in which we hear. Hearing is broken down when sound waves (noise) enters through the ear and structure like the anvil and hammer. These structures vibrate and...