Hearing-10th grade Anatomy

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Across
  1. 3. the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
  2. 4. fenestra that has the base of the stapes attached to it
  3. 6. a pouch projecting from an atrium of the heart
  4. 8. the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
  5. 12. either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum
  6. 14. a state of equilibrium
Down
  1. 1. one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium
  2. 2. either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
  3. 5. the cranial nerve that serves the retina
  4. 7. a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal
  5. 9. fenestra leading into the cochlea
  6. 10. the ossicle attached to the eardrum
  7. 11. the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
  8. 13. the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea