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