outer ear
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Ear plugs fit inside the ear while earmuffs cover the entire outer ear.
It’s never too early to start protecting your hearing | Jean Feingold | December 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe Nura ’buds have a flat touch-sensitive outer face and a silicon wing around the nozzle that tucks inside the outer ear.
NuraTrue earbuds review: Carry a custom concert everywhere | Quinn Gawronski | August 28, 2021 | Popular-ScienceRather than directly targeting the eardrum, headphones introduce sound to the outer ear first, which can help reduce harmful exposure somewhat.
The best kids’ headphones let them listen more and you worry less | Tony Ware | August 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe Sport Open Earbuds rely on a hook that hangs over the outer ear and balances the speakers in front of the canal.
Bose built a new kind of workout earbud to keep you safe while you sweat | Stan Horazek | January 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBose’s typical sport headphones rely on a small, rubbery wing that wedges into the outer ear in order to keep the earbud in place.
Bose built a new kind of workout earbud to keep you safe while you sweat | Stan Horazek | January 5, 2021 | Popular-Science
Even the outer ear is itself a receiver, for when the intermittent beam is focussed in the cavity a faint musical tone is heard.
Heroes of the Telegraph | J. MunroShall we allow the guess as to the origin of the tip of the outer ear to revolutionize theology?
The Other Side of Evolution | Alexander PattersonThe outer ear consists of a funnel-like organ composed largely of cartilage which is of use in collecting sound waves.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThe head is raised into a pyramidal crest far beyond the occiput, there is no outer ear, nor a drum-cavity.
Some recommend wool mixture with modelling wax forced into the outer ear.
The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It | Walter Winans
Scientific definitions for outer ear
[ ou′tər ]
The part of the ear in many vertebrates that is external to the eardrum (tympanic membrane) and contains the canal leading to the eardrum as well as the ear lobe and other visible structures. In mammals, the outer ear, which is made mostly of cartilage, gathers and focuses incoming sound waves and transmits them to the eardrum. See more at ear1.
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Cultural definitions for outer ear
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