Anatomy Of The Ear (Illustrated And Explained)

[@sarachristie5235]

This one’s my fave! I love a good “hard as nails” earwax as much as the next subscriber, but the detail and teaching here is next level. I’ve gotten more out of this channel than my Netflix subscription over the last few months. I found DHS while doing some personal research and now I’m hooked!!

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thankyou Sara, I appreciate the donation and kind comment!

[@CormacksGirl]

Absolutely loved this, clear diagrams and explained in a way that was easy to understand! Can't wait for the next videos!

[@joykiser6673]

You draw very well. Fascinating to see all the workings of the ear. Thank you!

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thanks

[@littlecritter13]

I have Endolymphatic Hydrops/Meniere's disease. So I find it cool to see the whole ear. We aren't taught in school how the ear tells our brain where we are in space.

[@youwontknowme2518]

i have a biology test this saturday and you literally saved my life T-T thank you

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Good luck!

[@PurplePinkRed]

Excellent video Conor! I don't think I've found a better presentation on this anywhere 👏 Great to see your channel growing so fast too!

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thanks for your comments and support

[@paulinehawkins2207]

This by far is the best comprehensive drawing I’ve seen of the anatomy of the ear. Especially with it being well labeled and colour coded. So complicated and yet you explain it beautifully. Looking forward to the next session covering the eustation tube etc. thanks Connor for sharing this interesting information. Take care. X

[@exquisitecandy2684]

I have looked and looked, finally I understand! I can never thank you enough for this clear and concise description and explanation all in one place. Loved it! The drawing helped a lot!

[@rob9495]

This was the clearest and most comprehensive diagram I've seen. Thank you. Love your channel.

[@barbbonam]

What an artist! Cute teacher too!

[@TruthOverLies]

Conner, this was very informative. Great job explaining the ear anatomy. Can you do a video explaining deafness. I understand there are multiple reasons but perhaps you can explain some of them. Thank you! Maryland USA

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Of course!

[@justausername1]

Very informative and easy to understand - I used to suffer from musical tinnitus but it seems to have healed or at least gotten much better since I no longer play live (it took over 10 years). I guess my question would be what parts of the ear are affected by tinnitus and why?

[@chantelm9255]

This was great! I never knew that the pinna allows us to locate sounds vertically. I'm going to go watch the video explaining middle ear fluid next.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thanks Chantel, glad you're finding them interesting!

[@Meeviche]

Very informative and well done. Thanks for the lesson!

[@eshackleton8248]

Conor, brilliant commentary and illustration. You’re on point - I have seen only one Santorini’s fissures being labeled in all the illustrations I came across. Rare sighting indeed.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Glad you liked it, thankyou for watching

[@lynnereagan8272]

Excellent video. It was interesting, instructive and the best use of those drawing tools that I've ever seen!

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thankyou

[@eileenh7597]

Fascinating, informative (❤️ labels too). Had painful earaches in one ear at night as a child (in the 60’s) and my mother warmed up baby oil and used a Q-Tip to drip it into my ear canal. I thought she must be my very own Angel. Late teen/early 20’s, I had near constant pain and yellow liquid drainage. After a polyp was removed (still wince remembering that), I was informed of a perforated eardrum. The hole must have been impressive because years later I’d feel a painful pop then, I could blow warm air out of my ear for a time (such fun at parties!). Recently, I felt pain and pressure in that ear for about a week; rationalizing that it must be a swollen node from fighting off “the Rona” because I had no blockage or drainage) then, after a boozy Easter; boom! Sharp pain, sticky liquid drainage and blockage (that’s what I get for having a bit of fun, reallyJS?) Got antibiotic drops from a walk-in but my traumatized child wouldn’t allow them to irrigate. Having watched these videos, I clearly see why a Q-tip should not be pushed into the ear canal (some of us need pictures to learn. With the pain and pressure I’ve endured, it’s little wonder I haven’t ripped my ear off in my sleep). I’m wondering if the pain is from pressure behind my eardrum (eustachian tube blocked?). Obviously I need professional help from an ENT. Thank you for this education, for having empathy for the pain you could cause while probing and for understanding that uneducated patients may be terrified and may wait until their pain is unbearable before they’ll seek professional assistance. 💖🙏🏻

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Hi Eileen, yes it certainly does seem like now it's time to see an ENT. Sounds like recurring suppurative otitis media, they should be able to give you a straight answer.

[@lauran5424]

Well done Connor!! Loved it. Also helped me understand my labyrinthitis episodes.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Glad you found it useful!

[@mavahuth5044]

Thanks for letting me know answers to my comments last night 😃.

[@RachelLockwoodReads]

Very cool. I’m trying to find an explanation of just how earwax is produced. A thorough explanation.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thanks, glad it was helpful

[@isaM08]

I always wanted to understand what happened in the ear and this was very helpful. When I was a kid, I had fluid inside the inner ear and I had to take an injection. I never understood how that would even happen, so thank you :D

[@aedved2]

Hello - lovely diagram. Very informative. What drawing tablet and software are you using? I especially liked the sparkly "ink".

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thanks, it's a small Wacom tablet and the standard Windows 10 ink workspace app

[@abcdestroyer]

I wonder if it would be possible to get a UK audiologist podcast. It'd be really cool listening to professionals share stories or talk about their opinions and histories on different procedures, techniques, tools, people, etc.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Cool idea, maybe Rhys and I could do a joint live stream sometime

[@MusicIsLife-bc3gy]

@@DurhamHearingSpecialists That's an awesome idea!

[@mavahuth5044]

That would be a great idea. It would be interesting to compare, how and why people do things. I'm always wondering why it is done that way. Specialty between country's.UK and US.

[@sherrywaskowski8412]

Would you please do a video on the relationship between chronic congestion and the Eustachian tube?

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Yes, will make this the next video

[@Le_Lys_Eclectique]

That was a brilliant explanation! Very clear! But do we need to internally wash the ears with soap? Or is it better not and only occasionally use ear drops? Thank you heaps!!!!! ❤

[@beatadalhagen]

I can make something inside my ear vibrate - always have, but with those textbook illustrations did not understand what it was. Now I am more confident in my guesswork.

[@MrDannyboy26]

what a great video. I had a mastiod op where they had to break my bones in my ear to get he infection out. deaf as a door nail now like but out of pain. i just never knew where the mastiod bit of my ear was but i do now so thank you

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching

[@thegrateful.runner]

Hi! Great video! What's the drawing app?

[@viclastname3872]

I would love to get a poster of this!

[@joannaharrison9997]

Amazing thank you

[@jessicasmith4388]

Hi, I had a severe ear infection that caused my eardrum to rupture a number of years ago. My question is could that infection cause damage to my eustachian tube that it now sticks together. When I have to pop my ears what I hear sounds like something that is glued together being pulled apart after which my hearing improves. Thank you Jessica

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Possibly, the entrance to the eustachian tube might be a tad sclerotic

[@karenatkins9704]

Thank you 👍👍👍👍

[@mischelepentz3613]

Best diagram I have seen! Can’t wait to see the follow up videos. And I second the request for a deafness video(s). I had an acoustic neuroma (I think it is called something else now) removed in the late 1980s that had eaten away most of my middle and inner ear as well as partially paralyzing my left side. I regained full use of my extremities following the surgery and my ear was reconstructed but my hearing has definitely been affected on that side. I have also dealt with tinnitus following that surgery and balance issues. What causes hearing of “white noise” when one can’t hear much else? And which structures in the ear help to keep balance? And, if you are cleaning an ear with man made ossicles, can you see a difference between them and the real thing? I have always been curious on that one.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Sounds like you had a large cholesteatoma, thanks for your ideas, plenty of videos to make!

[@sarahfrankham3883]

Thanks Connor very interesting

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thanks for watching

[@berkbuns]

Wonderful!

[@mavahuth5044]

In beginning you said this part of the ear one thing in the United States and something else in the UK. Also I liked how you color coded the different parts of the ear.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Yes, it's known as the pinna in the UK and Auricle in the US

[@StefanPriceUK]

Hello. My ear is muffled, pressure, pain. Burning. There is some fluid but the Dr says not infected. I'm sweating. Using a zimmer frame, confused. Very dizzy. Tinnitus. Is this my ear?

[@SherrySpies]

What would happen if someone put a transmitter in the pulp of my tooth and it put out vibrations and high hertz sounds through my ear

[@PeepBunnies]

Fantastic video. When I was a child and the doctor would try to explain what was happening with my ears using those anatomical posters, they’d make me squeamish. It was always the one with a small drawing off to the side of a scalpel cutting the eardrum to drain it. 😖 This would have been much nicer.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

I know the poster you're referring to, it did used to make some people nervous

[@humphreyearwicker312]

This video is epic. Best anatomy lesson I’ve ever seen. If I keep watching this channel, I will soon be educated enough to open a practice. Brilliant presentation. Serious but perhaps foolish questions: 1. Are the mastoid air cells there to lighten the load of the skull or to provide shock absorption? I heard once that if the mastoid were solid, you’d struggle to hold your head upright. Is that factoid fallacious? 2. Is the round window you see through the ear drum the back door of the cochlea (with the stapes being the front door)? 3. Okay, last one: Is the purpose of the ossicles to act as a lever to pass vibrations from light air to heavy liquid? I heard it explained by a physicist that the ossicles are a force multiplier but I have never confirmed that explanation. Thank you for sharing, Connor. Fascinating stuff.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Thanks Humphrey, glad you enjoyed it. In answer to your questions: 1. I'm fairly sure, aside from middle ear pressure regulation, they're there to provide shock absorption if you hit your head. If it were all solid bone the vibration from head trauma would more easily damage the inner ear I imagine. If they were all filled I don't think you'd notice much of a difference in head weight, they're pretty small and only surround the ear structures. 2. That's a pretty good analogy yes. 3. Yes it makes the transfer of energy less lossy. When sound hits liquid most of it's reflected, however through the lever system and pressure increase (large eardrum vs small stapes and oval window) the liquid inside the cochlea can be moved more efficiently. Thanks for watching, if you're going to set up H. Earwicker Ear Clinic I will gladly invest.

[@quidam53]

Where does ringing in the ear start? It is due to what?

[@ellowyellowful]

Hi Connor. I have a perforated eardrum (10% perforated) for around 5 years now and there are numerous times where the entire right side of my head (perforated side) aches. What causes this and are there any advise you can give to lessen the perforation? Thanks in advanced

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Hi, do you get anything leaking out of the ear when you have the ache? It's difficult to say the cause, it might not be the ear. I would say the best course of action would be to see an ENT specialist to see if the perf can be repaired, until then try your best not let water get in that ear.

[@ellowyellowful]

@@DurhamHearingSpecialists sometimes yellow liquids come out of it when I get the sniffles

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

@@ellowyellowful Time to see an ENT specialist I think

[@mavahuth5044]

I forget to ask why they are two different names. It is the same part of the ear. No matter if it is the UK or the United States.?

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

Yes same thing, I'm not sure why there's a difference though

[@jaguar_8344]

Because the UK uses the original old English word for “outer ear”. It is considered correct by Oxford - but after the trend of Latin naming of body parts began, America picked up oricle (oriculus). The uk never changed, because they had already solidified it as part of their language.

[@DurhamHearingSpecialists]

@@jaguar_8344 Thanks for sharing

[@mavahuth5044]

@@jaguar_8344 Thanks for letting us know. It's nice to know that we can learn from a lot of different people. Are you a Dr? I would like to know how you learned this?