A Commonplace Book

Category: ears...

  • someone who can wiggle their ears by contracting their scalp
  • keeping your eyes and ears open
  • the invisible vibrations called sound waves channeled into the auditory canal causing the eardrum and ossicles to vibrate; the vibrations traveling through fluid and hair cells to be converted into nerve impulses carried to the brain
  • hearing most clearly when the air pressure of the middle ear is the same as the air pressure outside your body
  • the human ear maintaining our sense of balance (equilibrium) and coordination of head and eye movements
  • ear wax, there to discourage insects from entering
  • the human ear being most sensitive to frequencies of 1000-4000 hertz, though young ears can hear 20-20,000 hertz
  • only when the nerve impulses reach the primary auditory area of the cerebral cortex does the listener become aware of the sound
  • Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears. (Chinese proverb)
  • You cannot reason with a hungry belly, it has no ears. (Greek proverb)
  • A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. (W. Wyatt)
  • Fluid in the semicircular canals is swirled by head movements, sending messages to your brain about the body's position. Then you adjust the rest of your body, to balance.
  • Ears can detect 1,500 different tones and 350 degrees of loudness.

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