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An ear is an organ used by an animal to detect sound waves, either refering to the entire system responsible for collection and early processing of sound or just the externally-visible part.
An ear is a colloquial term for the structure bearing the fruit of certain grain plants, such as maize or wheat.
The term ear is applied to parts of a structure that are "ear-like" or stick out (see auricle).
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Suppurative inflammation of the middle ear is either acute or chronic, and is in either case accompanied by perforation of the drum head and discharge from the ear.
The chief symptoms of ear diseases are deafness, noises in the ear (tinnitus aurium), giddiness, pain and discharge.
Ear diseases are treated on ordinary surgical and medical lines, due regard being had to the anatomical and physiological peculiarities of this organ of sense, and especially to its close relationship, on the one hand to the nose and naso-pharynx, and on the other hand to the cranium and its contents.
The sound pressure is amplified through the middle portion of the ear and, in land animals, passed from a medium of air into a medium of fluid.
Although the word "ear" may properly refer to the pinna (the flesh covered cartilage appendage on either side of the head), this portion of the ear is not vital for hearing.
The angles between the articulating ear ossicles increase the force applied to the stapes footplate from that of the movement of the malleus (hammer).
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