Eardrum
noun
The thin piece of skin deep inside your ear that vibrates when sound hits it.
Listening to loud music can damage your eardrum.
Often appears as...
- burst an eardrum
- damage to the eardrum
noun
The thin piece of skin deep inside your ear that vibrates when sound hits it.
Listening to loud music can damage your eardrum.
Often appears as...
- burst an eardrum
- damage to the eardrum
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Pro Tip 1/3Sound Sensitivity
The eardrum helps us detect sound volume and pitch, so it's crucial for hearing.
After the explosion, his eardrum was too damaged to sense quiet noises.
Pro Tip 2/3Injury Concern
Protect your eardrum from loud noise and sharp objects to prevent injury.
Wear earplugs at a concert to guard your eardrum.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Attention
If you feel pain or discomfort in your ear, you might have an eardrum issue.
A doctor can examine if your earache is due to an eardrum tear.
Pro Tip 1/3Sound Sensitivity
The eardrum helps us detect sound volume and pitch, so it's crucial for hearing.
After the explosion, his eardrum was too damaged to sense quiet noises.
Pro Tip 2/3Injury Concern
Protect your eardrum from loud noise and sharp objects to prevent injury.
Wear earplugs at a concert to guard your eardrum.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Attention
If you feel pain or discomfort in your ear, you might have an eardrum issue.
A doctor can examine if your earache is due to an eardrum tear.
Pro Tip 1/3Sound Sensitivity
The eardrum helps us detect sound volume and pitch, so it's crucial for hearing.
After the explosion, his eardrum was too damaged to sense quiet noises.
Pro Tip 2/3Injury Concern
Protect your eardrum from loud noise and sharp objects to prevent injury.
Wear earplugs at a concert to guard your eardrum.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Attention
If you feel pain or discomfort in your ear, you might have an eardrum issue.
A doctor can examine if your earache is due to an eardrum tear.
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
anything where you've got a little bit bigger that can trap more sound and funnel it into the eardrum will help you to hear things a little bit better so it's often why people do this when they're trying to listen to something and trying to hear something so it's it's it does help them and you'll find a lot of the nocturnal creatures tend to
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The science of hearing -...
The solution is the eardrum, or tympanic membrane, and the tiny bones of the middle ear. Those convert the large movements of the eardrum into pressure waves in the fluid of the cochlea. When sound enters the ear canal, it hits the eardrum and makes it vibrate like the head of a drum.
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Charles Limb: Building...
when he wrote that. Now I'd like to impress upon you how unusual it is that we can hear music. Music is just one of the strangest things that there is. It's acoustic vibrations in the air, little waves of energy in the air that tickle our eardrum.
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Mysteries of vernacular:...
Ear canals are warm and dark, the perfect home for a creepy-crawly like this one. The important thing to remember is that even if an earwig found its way into your ear, it would never eat through your eardrum. Despite the erroneous origins
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In search for the man...
on a hilltop, bright in the noontime sun, when from behind there was a great bang, as loud and violent as a bomb. My head snapped back over my red seat. My eardrum blew. My shoes flew off. I flew too, my head bobbing on broken bones,
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Julian Treasure: Shh!...
Incidentally, we see just one octave. Your ears are always on -- you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep. The smallest sound you can perceive moves your eardrum just four atomic diameters. The loudest sound you can hear
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Can loud music damage...
our ears have evolved to process vibrations in the air. These waves of air pressure enter our ear canals and bounce off the eardrum. A trio of bones called the ossicular chain then carries those vibrations into the cochlea,
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Turning Sound Into...
the cross-modal version of touch in a way and that they are these waves that sort of move through the air and they get in your ear and actually hit the eardrum and they push it back and forth
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The Smallest Bones in...
way the three ossicles work together makes an extremely efficient hearing system transmitting 60% of the sound energy that hits the eardrum to the
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Masters of Mixed Martial...
like I hit it right at the eardrum when I could fill it for my shoulder to my hip I know it's a good strike high-speed
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
anything where you've got a little bit bigger that can trap more sound and funnel it into the eardrum will help you to hear things a little bit better so it's often why people do this when they're trying to listen to something and trying to hear something so it's it's it does help them and you'll find a lot of the nocturnal creatures tend to
Video examples
The science of hearing -...
The solution is the eardrum, or tympanic membrane, and the tiny bones of the middle ear. Those convert the large movements of the eardrum into pressure waves in the fluid of the cochlea. When sound enters the ear canal, it hits the eardrum and makes it vibrate like the head of a drum.
Video examples
Charles Limb: Building...
when he wrote that. Now I'd like to impress upon you how unusual it is that we can hear music. Music is just one of the strangest things that there is. It's acoustic vibrations in the air, little waves of energy in the air that tickle our eardrum.
Video examples
Mysteries of vernacular:...
Ear canals are warm and dark, the perfect home for a creepy-crawly like this one. The important thing to remember is that even if an earwig found its way into your ear, it would never eat through your eardrum. Despite the erroneous origins
Video examples
In search for the man...
on a hilltop, bright in the noontime sun, when from behind there was a great bang, as loud and violent as a bomb. My head snapped back over my red seat. My eardrum blew. My shoes flew off. I flew too, my head bobbing on broken bones,
Video examples
Julian Treasure: Shh!...
Incidentally, we see just one octave. Your ears are always on -- you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep. The smallest sound you can perceive moves your eardrum just four atomic diameters. The loudest sound you can hear
Video examples
Can loud music damage...
our ears have evolved to process vibrations in the air. These waves of air pressure enter our ear canals and bounce off the eardrum. A trio of bones called the ossicular chain then carries those vibrations into the cochlea,
Video examples
Turning Sound Into...
the cross-modal version of touch in a way and that they are these waves that sort of move through the air and they get in your ear and actually hit the eardrum and they push it back and forth
Video examples
The Smallest Bones in...
way the three ossicles work together makes an extremely efficient hearing system transmitting 60% of the sound energy that hits the eardrum to the
Video examples
Masters of Mixed Martial...
like I hit it right at the eardrum when I could fill it for my shoulder to my hip I know it's a good strike high-speed
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Quote examples
Ant McPartlin
English Celebrity
On 'Takeaway' we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.
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Kurt Elling
American Musician
Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.
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Ant McPartlin
English Celebrity
On 'Takeaway' we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.
Quote examples
Kurt Elling
American Musician
Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.
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