Next and last stop, the middle ear. We are now looking at an actual eardrum. The eardrum's a thin piece of skin, and other tissues, stretched tight like a drum. When sound waves hit the eardrum ...

But first, some basics. Deep inside the ear, through your ear canal and past your ear drum, lies the inner ear. Here, there’s an important bit of anatomy called the cochlea. (It kind of looks a like a ...

In the normal course sounds pass through the ear canal and fall on the ear drum that marks the end of the outer ear and beginning of the middle ear. The middle ear amplifies and passes on the ...