Three Causes Of Hearing Loss: The Symptoms Of Hearing Loss

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• Hearing loss may result from damage in any part in the ear that blocks the ear canal. There are three types of deafness, first of all conductive deafness, as it means that the sound can’t pass through the outer and middle ear to send it to the cochlea and auditory nerve, second of all sensori-neural deafness as its caused by a problem in the cochlea, last but not least mixed deafness as it’s a combination of both sensori-neural deafness. Symptoms of deafness as could be difficulty to the person that have deafness to following the conversation. Some of the causes of hearing loss is damage to the inner ear, the accumulation of earwax infections and rupture the eardrum.

As our ear is consist of three parts the outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear, these all works together to pass sound through our ears and our …show more content…

As the outer ear is consist of the pinna as it work like a faunal that collect sound waves these sound waves pass through the ear canal , after the ear canal send the sound waves to the ear drum. Which cause it to vibrate. The higher the pitch or the frequency the faster the vibration. These vibrations are then send to the middle ear. The middle ear contain three tiny bones called the ossicles these are joined together with the ear drum as they amplify the sound waves and pass it on to the inner ear. After sound waves pass through the ossicles they vibrat e which send it to the inner ear to the cochlea. Sound waves traveles through the cochlea and make the tiny hair cells moves. When the hair cells in the cochlea moves they cause an electrical signal to travel through the auditory nerve and to your brain. These electrical signals depends on the pitch of the sound how loud or low is the sound. Finally your brain makes since of the signal, and so you hear the

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