It’s easy to poke fun at someone with big ears, but human bodies have an interesting ... The ear’s outer flap, called the pinna, acts as a sound-gatherer, “a bit like a horn,” Dr. Ricketts ...

If the inner surface of the ear (usually, but not always, one side only) of your dog suddenly becomes swollen, then 99 times out of 100 it is because small blood vessels in the ear flap have ...

Those external folds of cartilage and skin, called the pinna, have important resonant properties that modify high-frequency sound waves entering the ear before funneling them to the middle ear.

One of the very advanced sensitive organs of the human body ... and the inner ear. The outer ear consists of the pinna or auricle, the part that we see on the side of the head, and the tube ...

Gills and mammalian ears bear little resemblance ... pattern in the cartilage cells (also known as chondrocytes) of human pinna most closely resembles that of zebrafish gill chondrocytes than ...

Study of 9,000 twins reveals genetics influences how much you enjoy music Can animals understand human language ... part of the ear in humans and other mammals is known as the pinna; in many ...

Scientists discovered that human subjects who shifted their gaze to the left or right weakly activated a muscle within the posterior wall of the outer ear, or pinna. Later studies measured the ...

The team discovered this ability by measuring electrical signals in the muscles of the vestigial motor system in the human ear ... of the pinna (the visible outer part of the ear).

It’s easy to poke fun at someone with big ears, but human bodies have an interesting way of evolving to optimize their effectiveness. One expert, Todd Ricketts, director of graduate studies in ...