Across
- 2. hearing condition
- 4. a turning round, dizziness
- 7. a waxy substance secreted by glands located throughout the external canal
- 8. earache
- 10. drum-like structure that receives sound collected in the external acoustic meatus and amplifies it through the middle ear
- 12. eardrum
- 14. ear
- 16. inflammation of the eardrum
- 20. a ringing or buzzing in the ears
- 21. coiled tubular structure of the internal ear that contains the spiral organ of Corti; cochlear duct is the membranous tube within the cochlea
- 22. fluid within the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear
- 26. wax
- 30. process of measuring hearing
Down
- 1. hearing professional who specializes in the study of hearing impairments
- 3. bleeding from the ear
- 5. hardening of the bony tissue in the ear
- 6. purulent drainage from the ear
- 9. record of hearing measurement
- 11. instrument to measure hearing
- 13. (hammer) first of the three auditory ossicles of the middle ear
- 15. eardrum
- 17. projected part of the external ear
- 18. (anvil) middle of the three auditory ossicles of the middle ear
- 19. (stirrup) last of the three auditory ossicles of the middle ear
- 23. general term for partial or complete loss of hearing
- 24. the smaller of two sacs within the membranous labyrinth of the vestibule in the inner ear
- 25. fluid that fills the bony labyrinth of the internal ear
- 27. earache
- 28. hearing impairment in old age
- 29. inflammation of the eardrum
- 31. the larger of two sacs within the membranous labyrinth of the vestibule in the inner ear
