Chapter 38.5, Problem 3CC

Summary Introduction

To explain:

The disturbance on hearing, if the stapes become fused to the other middle ear bones or to the oval window.

Introduction:

Ossicles are the three bones present in the human body. They transmit the sound from the surrounding to the inner ear, the cochlea. The ossicles are the smallest bones present in the body of human and their absence constitute to loss of hearing.